We know how it is…you hope that, perhaps, SOMEONE from your vast (?) circle of friends (?) might decide to open their spacious loft to their nearest and dearest the last night of the year and you’d be set.  And if that friend lived within walking distance…considering it’s assured that the hardest night to get around NYC will bring some sort of inclimate weather conditions… what a fabulous way to bring in the new year!

Alas…

Nothing. Of course the transit strike didn’t exactly make planning a big party a priority or even semi-intelligent.  And then you got all caught up with last minute shopping and baking (Oh!  The strike is over!  Whoops!) and everyone was so damned tired from schlepping back and forth from work, so as not to lose too many wages and it was enough to just get Christmas back ... Read More