Love everything about this post! 🖤 We lived it and loved it in all the best and worst ways possible. I also highly recommend Keith McNally's audiobook 'I Regret Almost Everything' which I recently finished and is the same nostalgic vibey romp. Love you! 😍🥰😍
Ah, you made me feel nostalgic for a city I never knew. As a teenager in the 90s, I am grateful to at least remember a life before cell phones. Loved every bit of this!
Really captures that time and the city beautifully. Those were great days, and the city has lost a lot since then. (God knows I still love it, though!)
Your wife was a big part of my days back then!! 🥹💗 I do still love it, especially Brooklyn obviously! Not sure I would've made it this long living in Manhattan.
Reading this brought tears to my eyes! You have thoroughly captured the spirit of life back then. They were the very, very best of days (and nights). I'm going to share this with Evie because I so often try to describe what life was like during those days, and this really captures it. Thank you for taking me back in such vivid detail—I needed this!
Aww thanks Randi! It is really so hard to capture that feeling and the feelings of possibly and excitement, even when we were also having to get our slides developed for presentations!! 😂😭
Viva New York City in the '90's!!! I've never been so broke, yet I was out all the time (thanks, media parties), and was so blissfully happy. If I had had a phone and social media, I know I would have felt the FOMO. I'll represent for the Upper East Side: Sullivan's, Dorrian's, Sweet Melissa's, Dapper Dog, Who's on First, Blue Moon, Brother Jimmy's, Victory Cafe, Luke's, and sooo many more.
P.S. NGL, it's kinda fun to be dating my 90's crush in 2026!
Luke's! That was kind of the cool UES place (besides Nick's Grove). So pissed we didn't know each other then, but may have met outside the bathroom there! Yeah getting together with your 90s crush is swoon-worthy!!
Great stroll down memory lane...but of all the pics of us in the 90s, you include this one? UGH! Oversized men's white shirt, check. Selima Optique-CBK-like shades, check. A best-friend who was by my side day and night to help piece together every amazing, fun memory of 90s-downtown-NYC, check. Luna Lounge, Fez (back bar of Time Cafe), Nell's, Beauty Bar, Sidewalk, DBA, Lucky Strike/Toad Hall, and in those rare uptown nights, The Mill, Nick's Grove and Hi-Life. But we did do much more in our 20s than just drink at bars/clubs -- ha! Perhaps I should have taken up cigarettes like everyone else in our orbit? Maybe I would have been thinner, like CBK? Ha! I no-doubt inhaled equal amounts of carcinogens from all that second-hand smoke anyway so I probably should have. But nonetheless, smoking wouldn't have chiseled away all that luscious baby-fat in my cheeks. Thanks, Dee, for a great throwback substack. Keep 'em coming! xoxo
I'm sorry I love that pic of us! I have to do an entirely different Substack just on the restaurants and bars, I think. I mean...Flamingo East?! Sapphire! Ace Bar. What was the place on 6th St and 2nd Ave? Something 103?
And probably need a post just about our favorite classes at the gym, stores we loved (Apartment 48!) and I could go on.
Love everything about this post! 🖤 We lived it and loved it in all the best and worst ways possible. I also highly recommend Keith McNally's audiobook 'I Regret Almost Everything' which I recently finished and is the same nostalgic vibey romp. Love you! 😍🥰😍
Right. We lived it and loved it. Love you too!!
Ah, you made me feel nostalgic for a city I never knew. As a teenager in the 90s, I am grateful to at least remember a life before cell phones. Loved every bit of this!
At least you had a phone-less childhood! It was pretty special though, for sure. 🙌🏼
Really captures that time and the city beautifully. Those were great days, and the city has lost a lot since then. (God knows I still love it, though!)
Your wife was a big part of my days back then!! 🥹💗 I do still love it, especially Brooklyn obviously! Not sure I would've made it this long living in Manhattan.
Reading this brought tears to my eyes! You have thoroughly captured the spirit of life back then. They were the very, very best of days (and nights). I'm going to share this with Evie because I so often try to describe what life was like during those days, and this really captures it. Thank you for taking me back in such vivid detail—I needed this!
Aww thanks Randi! It is really so hard to capture that feeling and the feelings of possibly and excitement, even when we were also having to get our slides developed for presentations!! 😂😭
Great piece and puts one right back in those wonderful NYC times. It was a beautiful period.
I’ve written many articles but none about my decade in the Big Apple. I need to make it happen and thanks for the inspiration.
Viva New York City in the '90's!!! I've never been so broke, yet I was out all the time (thanks, media parties), and was so blissfully happy. If I had had a phone and social media, I know I would have felt the FOMO. I'll represent for the Upper East Side: Sullivan's, Dorrian's, Sweet Melissa's, Dapper Dog, Who's on First, Blue Moon, Brother Jimmy's, Victory Cafe, Luke's, and sooo many more.
P.S. NGL, it's kinda fun to be dating my 90's crush in 2026!
Luke's! That was kind of the cool UES place (besides Nick's Grove). So pissed we didn't know each other then, but may have met outside the bathroom there! Yeah getting together with your 90s crush is swoon-worthy!!
YES! I definitely would have been the drunk girl in the bathroom crying over a stupid boy. 😆
Great stroll down memory lane...but of all the pics of us in the 90s, you include this one? UGH! Oversized men's white shirt, check. Selima Optique-CBK-like shades, check. A best-friend who was by my side day and night to help piece together every amazing, fun memory of 90s-downtown-NYC, check. Luna Lounge, Fez (back bar of Time Cafe), Nell's, Beauty Bar, Sidewalk, DBA, Lucky Strike/Toad Hall, and in those rare uptown nights, The Mill, Nick's Grove and Hi-Life. But we did do much more in our 20s than just drink at bars/clubs -- ha! Perhaps I should have taken up cigarettes like everyone else in our orbit? Maybe I would have been thinner, like CBK? Ha! I no-doubt inhaled equal amounts of carcinogens from all that second-hand smoke anyway so I probably should have. But nonetheless, smoking wouldn't have chiseled away all that luscious baby-fat in my cheeks. Thanks, Dee, for a great throwback substack. Keep 'em coming! xoxo
I'm sorry I love that pic of us! I have to do an entirely different Substack just on the restaurants and bars, I think. I mean...Flamingo East?! Sapphire! Ace Bar. What was the place on 6th St and 2nd Ave? Something 103?
And probably need a post just about our favorite classes at the gym, stores we loved (Apartment 48!) and I could go on.
No one better to have done it with!
Lucky Strike!
Sigh