Nemo

Friday afternoon I left work about an hour early due to the impending arrival of Nemo.

 Beginning of the blizzard, view from work. 

 Upper East.

 Astoria the next day. 

Look at this little guy!

Life Lately According to my iPhone Pictures

 Gorgeous!!!

One night I decided to walk home from work and took a different route than 

usual to discover this beautiful street. I love New York City in the winter!

 Roommate sharing a blanket on the couch one evening. 

I don't know why anyone would ever want to live alone. 

 Good morning! BRRR.

Lindsay and I have developed a gambling addiction.

I won $15 off one! They're only $1 each.

5 of our like 15 traps. I'll spare you the pictures of the dead mice. 

14 dead Ralphs in about 6 months. 

Happy hour with coworkers at Bryant Park's pop-up restaurant, Celsius. 

Great view, terrible place to eat/drink. 

 Happy hour at La Biblioteca! It's in the basement of a restaurant, 

really cool atmosphere. 

At La Biblioteca with Liz and Alyssa. 

Facetiming this little babe!! Haha

I went to my first hockey game!

Bridgeport, CT Sound Tigers!

Frostee at the hockey game. It was freezing. 

 Kitty prints in the snow!

Snow.

 Last weekend we went to Brooklyn!

Brand new Barclays Center

 We went for ice cream in Brooklyn, at the famous Ample Hills.

YUM.

Linds was really happy after ice cream. 

View from a cab ride last week.

1913 Prices at Grand Central for the 100th Bday.

 Roomie dinner date at Fishtail by David Burke for NYC Restaurant Week!

 Three course meal. Seafood Soup, Surf 'n Turf (pictured) and Apple Crumble Pie.

Surf 'n Turf was skate and braised beef. YUM. 

Classy ladies. We wore heels and dresses and everything. We clean up pretty well :)

The next day I needed to even out the classy with a 

burger, fries and beer at a local bar for dinner with Liz and Alyssa. Also YUM.

With Liz and Linds at the Gingerman. 

Lastly, a few pictures of my new favorite cat:

 

His name is Tard and he's real.

Middle Class in NYC

Interesting article:

What is Middle Class in Manhattan?


"DRIVE through almost any neighborhood around the country, and class divisions are as clear as the gate around one community or the grittiness of another. From the footprint of the house to the gleam on the car in the driveway, it is not hard to guess the economic status of the people who live there.

Even the landscape is carved up by class. From 15,000 feet up, you can stare down at subdivisions and tract houses, and America’s class lines will stare right back up at you.

Manhattan, however, is not like most places. Its 1.6 million residents hide in a forest of tall buildings, and even the city’s elite take the subway. Sure, there are obvious brand-name buildings and tony ZIP codes where the price of entry clearly demands a certain amount of wealth, but middle-class neighborhoods do not really exist in Manhattan — probably the only place in the United States where a $5.5 million condo with a teak closet and mother-of-pearl wall tile shares a block with a public housing project.

...In a city like New York, where everything is superlative, who exactly is middle class? What kind of salary are we talking about? Where does a middle-class person live? And could the relentless rise in real estate prices push the middle class to extinction?

...Her horror, of course, is Manhattan’s high cost of living, which has for decades shocked transplants from Kansas and elsewhere, and threatened natives with the specter of an economic apocalypse that will empty the city of all but a few hardy plutocrats.

And yet the middle class stubbornly hangs on, trading economic pain for the emotional gain of hot restaurants, the High Line and the feeling of being in the center of everything. The price tag for life’s basic necessities — everything from milk to haircuts to Lipitor to electricity, and especially housing — is more than twice the national average.

The average Manhattan apartment, at $3,973 a month, costs almost $2,800 more than the average rental nationwide. The average sale price of a home in Manhattan last year was $1.46 million, according to a recent Douglas Elliman report, while the average sale price for a new home in the United States was just under $230,000. The middle class makes up a smaller proportion of the population in New York than elsewhere in the nation. New Yorkers also live in a notably unequal place. Household incomes in Manhattan are about as evenly distributed as they are in Bolivia or Sierra Leone — the wealthiest fifth of Manhattanites make 40 times more than the lowest fifth, according to 2010 census data."