About Me...

The Financial District gets a bad rap among young people. Sure, most places close at 6 p.m. and it’s hard to find fun, young places to go to down here at the tip of Manhattan. But there’s a lot more to Wall Street than meets the eye. I’m using this blog space to find and explore those places. I’m sure they exist somewhere!

I’m a senior at NYU, and a Journalism and Spanish major. I just spent the spring studying abroad in Madrid, which got me really into traveling. And I love food, so there will probably be a lot of restaurant and café chatter. There’s nothing better than a strong cappuccino and a good book on a Saturday afternoon, so I’ll be looking out for good coffee down here. I’m also big on shopping, so you can expect to see a lot about that too. I’m on a limited budget, but I think the best part of living in New York City is finding those offbeat stores that sell weird things.

My biggest goal with this blog is to show that the Financial District is a lot more than offices and business people - there’s a lot going on down here! Lower Manhattan was the site of the original Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century, and there’s a lot of history among the high-rise office buildings. This blog is an exploration into one of the city’s more overlooked neighborhoods, one that is dynamic and rapidly changing.