Halloween in NYC 2012
I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween and I’m not really sure why. Perhaps I always felt too much pressure to create the best costume, or maybe it was all that walking around, up...
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Embracing Simplicity
Especially in cosmopolitan cities we see a constant desire for “more.” The assumption being that excess is the ideal. Manhattan, with its skyscrapers, crowed shops, and glittering runways, is the poster child for materialism. Just...
Countdown to The Election
Here we are again…just two weeks away from a critical, history altering, election night. I remember the energy of it 4 years ago like it was yesterday. The charge in the air was so palpable....
Essentia’s Halloween Mixer Oct 25th!
Witches and Essentia New York have one very important thing in common: we are both green. And since it’s that spooky, haunted, pumpkin time of year again, we are celebrating the ghostly spirit in all...
Halloween Sweet Potato Soup
We at Essentia New York realize that the change of seasons can be hard to keep up with: do I wear the sweater or the layers, leave the scarf at home, or take the umbrella...
Why NYC (and everyone else) loves The ING NYC Marathon
It’s Sunday, and in exactly 3 weeks from today over 45,000 runners plus their friends, families and enthusiastic spectators will descend upon the 5 boroughs for the...
Go Argo Go!
Ok, I’ll admit it, I have a thing for Ben Affleck, hence this blog post, but there’s nothing wrong with a little shameless idolization blogging...
What Sleep Position Reveals
We at Essentia New York are always very concerned about the details of how you sleep: all of it matters to us. A huge part of that is the way your body organically moves...
Wake Up to Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and we at Essentia New York are very pleased to be one of the contributors to a silent auction for a feature film fundraiser all about that very subject,...