While I’m definitely a city girl at heart and love being in the center of all the action that comes with city life, I’ll be the first to admit that there are downfalls for living in such a populated area. Note: If you’ve been debating moving to a city, don’t let these few factors deter you. Trust me, it was much harder f ...
Monteka Maddox “Maddox” @msmadd | @amaddfox Current Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn Hometown: Oakland, CA Professional Position: Educator, Founder & Creator of ‘MaddFox’ and ‘Maddox’ What do you create? I create tradition. I create opportunities for women to feel beautiful and feel classic. To feel like the wom ...
Whether you’re a grad student continuing your education, or a recent college graduate working in or around a university, living in a college town/city when you’re no longer an undergrad can be awkward. What now? Not still the young, undergraduate college kid, but also not quite the older, experienced working woman or man, it can ...
Lindsey Day @LindseyDayy Current Location: Crown Heights, Brooklyn Hometown: Sacramento, California Professional Position: Founder, CRWN Magazine What do you do or create? CRWN Magazine — A print magazine about natural hair. We’re starting the conversation on hair, but it’s a Lifestyle brand. What inspired you t ...
Regardless of how old you are, adulting is difficult. Every now and again, the stresses of daily life can feel like they’re grinding you down to your core. Whether it’s your mundane drive to the office, or the waiter getting your order wrong at lunch, or the list of chores that seems to have been piling up for months, everyone experie ...
Zoe Zeigler @ZoeZeigler Current Location: Harlem, Manhattan Hometown: Los Angeles, California Professional Position: Creative Marketer What kind of person is a New Yorker? It takes a certain degree of scrappiness to thrive in NYC. You really have to be able to roll with the punches, because every day here you’ll come across u ...
Lilliana Vazquez @theLVguide Current Location: Chelsea, Manhattan Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas Professional Position: Fashion Contributor, Today Show & Digital Content Curator, The LV Guide What do you do or create? I do a lot of things. First, I’m a digital content curator. I curate fashion, beauty, and lifestyle finds fo ...
A few days ago, I came across an email from the brokerage Citi Habitats. They do this cool thing where they’ll email out monthly reports on the Manhattan residential rental market, based on their internal data and expansive research. Within moments of dissecting it, my eyes grew large. In a market that’s so densely populated, it’s ...
Most of us are aware of Philadelphia’s outpour of mental capital into the US society and economy at large. Philly sits right next to Boston when you account for how many undergrad and grad students walk the streets vs normal civilians (think: Penn, Drexel, Temple, Villanova, Thomas Jefferson, St. Joe’s, LaSalle, U Arts - and that’s ...
If you’re a commuter in Philadelphia, the struggle has been real for you this summer. SEPTA’s Regional Rail was once capable of transporting 132,000 commuters on a daily basis. When a structural defect was discovered amongst the cars of their newest fleet, the Silverliner V, SEPTA was forced to remove 120 of the railcars from servi ...
As you can imagine, from the title, this is about to be a rollercoaster of a story. You’d be right in making that assumption. To protect the subject of our story, we’ve changed the names of all the characters. Please read and share this so that we can bring awareness to these issues. This is Sofia’s story. An immigrant from V ...
“I’m just happy and grateful to have a place to call home,” said Christina Whitehurst, a single mother, and resident of the Johnson Homes projects located in North Philadelphia. Seeing her children run around their new home, braid each other’s hair, and share laughs immediately makes you understand why this woman, who once lived ...
