This has been a weird week. I just moved back into my place in Williamsburg after waiting out Sandy on the Upper East Side with a friend: we were lucky in that we had a very "boring" hurricane with neither of our homes losing power or being flooded....
It's really easy for New York City to lose that tourist sparkle after you've lived there for a few years. Sure, you still marvel at seeing the city all sparkly when you're in a cab going over the Brooklyn Bridge late at night and you revel in the...
New York City has some epic sunsets, but too often they're hidden behind all of those skyscrapers. The only way to remedy this: go up to the very top of one of those skyscrapers. Top of the Rock and the Empire State Building are great public options,...
New York City is an easy city to be overwhelmed by: heck, I've lived here for five years and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface of everything the city has to offer. There's just so much good stuff--from the tucked away local...
Last weekend marked the unofficial start to summer, and honestly, it was one of my favorite weekends in the city to date. Maybe we've just been cooped up for too long--and to be fair, I've spent just about every weekend in the yoga studio since...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.