Top Ten TV Shows Set in NYC

Here is a list of my top 10 favorite shows to be set in New York City.  Let me know if you feel like I left something out!

10. Night Court
I totally thought this was ridiculous growing up, but it turns out that the court system in NYC really does run 24 hours a day.

9. Law & Order
Law & Order has several variations that have been set in NYC (Criminal Intent, SVU, etc.) and all of them have been just fabulous!

8. The Jeffersons
Much like George and Wheezy we recently moved on up to the East Side and we love it here.

7. All in the Family
I heart Edith Bunker!

6. Friends
This show was awesome but it gave me a very poor understanding of apartment sizes in NYC.

5.Seinfeld
Why...do they always...eat...at that diner?  I've been there and it isn't the best diner in their neighborhood.

4. Sex and the City
One of my favorite shows ever!

3. The Cosby Show
Ah, Bill Cosby.  Your penchant for salty, fatty food and love of jazz stay with me to this day.

2. Sesame Street
Everything's A-OK here!

1. I Love Lucy
This is quite possibly my favorite TV show of all time and, if I'm honest, a big part of the reason I moved to New York in the first place.  As a little girl living in a run down little house in Texas (my family moved up to bigger and better as I got older but we started out in a pretty cruddy house out in podunk nowhere) I would watch reruns of I Love Lucy and marvel at how awesome life was in NYC.  Considering one of my favorite movies at the time was also The Muppets Take Manhattan I feel like I was destined to end up here!

Off Broadway

On Friday we went to see a show at an Off-Broadway theater.  The show was called The Sphinx Winx and it was kind of adorable.

It was a musical misinterpretation of Egyptian history, with Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony and a host of other characters.  It would have been better with a larger cast and a slight script rewrite, but it was otherwise pretty cute.

I've been crazy busy lately so I haven't had much time to update the blog in a while but I will be updating it more frequently here in the future.  Tomorrow is my birthday so hopefully I will have some new stuff for you soon!

Fleet Week

Yes, it is that time again.  Walking through the city in the early summer heat you begin to hear what sounds like Barry White music wafting through the air.  You notice your hips swing back and forth seductively without any conscious thought or effort.  You suddenly have the urge to buy a push-up bra and you don't know why.  Yes ladies, it is fleet week!

Or it was last week at any rate.  This is the time of year when the men and women of the US Navy dock in NYC and run around town in their delicious uniforms, being all sexy and patriotic.  There is nothing quite like spotting your first sailor of the season, like when you see the first birds as the snow begins to melt away in the spring.  I, of course, am married and pregnant so fleet week is simply appreciating the view for a while.  I'm sure my husband would feel the same way if NYC had a large breasted underwear model week.

For your viewing pleasure, ladies and gay gents, I have taken pictures of a few of the sailors as they wandered around the city!  I mostly have shots from behind, partly because I respect the fact that they may not want their faces posted all over the internet and partly because the best part of a sailor is his rear end, so enjoy!