Holiday Gift Guide: Made in USA
Do you want to make a great gift and support your local economy? Then look no further! Today I’m bringing you a curated selection of gifts made in USA by small and medium companies that use the finest materials. …
Holiday Gifts for Foodies
I have several members of my family who are literally obsessed with food. But sometimes gifting foodies can be somehow tricky (it should be a bit more complicated than roaming the aisles of Whole Foods, right?) My Foodies Galore…
Gifts for the Book Lovers
We all have at least one bookworm (aka book lover) in our life. When it comes to gifting, many people assume that giving that person something else to stack in an already crammed and overflowing bookshelf is the best…
Geek Holiday Gift Guide
If you’ve stumbled upon this post while looking for gifts for the geek(s) in your life, you have arrived at a great place. I have curated nine different gift ideas that include Star Wars products, a superb American artist,…
Holiday Gift Guide: Organic Products
I am so glad to see that you’re reading New York For Beginners today, because I’m starting a 12-day special with my specially curated Holiday Gift Guides. In them you’ll find all sorts of gifting ideas from companies that…
Black Friday 2015: The Body Shop Tote is here
Via The Body Shop With Thanksgiving approaching, this week is seeing the unveiling of many awesome deals (such as the ones I featured here for organic cosmetics.) Today I’m bringing you my personal favorite: The Body Shop’s 2015 Black…
My New York: Celebrities Talk about the City
Imagine I told you there is one book that captures the essence of New York: You’d probably know I am lying! However, what if I told you I found one book with extremely insightful stories of the many perspectives…
Review: ProfilePRO custom hair care
Good morning fellow Gothamists! The weather has been crazy this past week. Which means that my hair has decided to live a life of its own once again, gifting me with a million flyaways due to the extraordinary humidity…
Hard Rock Cafe NYC Exclusive FDNY Collection
Yep, these guys (who model in the FDNY official calendar) look at me every single day from my kitchen wall On June 14, 1971, Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton opened the first-ever Hard Rock Cafe in London, which expanded…