Welcome to our newest blogger! FiDi Families welcomes our newest contributor to the blog, Mariann Guadagnino. She will be highlighting fun activities that are happening throughout the downtown neighborhoods and exploring many of them for the first time. We are very excited to have her join our team…
Hey, FiDi Families! My name is Mariann Guadagnino. I am new to the FiDi Family and wanted to introduce myself. I am a twenty-one year old student from Staten Island, New York. After growing up on Staten Island, the “forgotten borough,” where everyone knows each other, I was eager to broaden my horizon. Where would be a better place to do this than New York City? Coming from a strict and old-fashioned Sicilian family, I was not allowed to travel to New York City when I was growing up, so naturally there was more appeal in addition to it being the Empire State. I moved to Lower Manhattan when I began college and immediately fell in love with all of the Financial District. I was introduced to an entirely different world that I was used to. I fell in love with the area’s ambition, prosperity, and empowerment, and of course the family life.
I am pursuing a BBA in Marketing with a focus in Advertising and Promotion. I am also a minor in Creative Writing, a course I value tremendously, as it emphasizes the idea of teaching students to explore and unleash their imagination and originality. Everyday I consciously make the effort to do something that will leave me with some sort of happiness when I go to sleep at night. Life s too short to only endure hustle and bustle. Writing for this website is going to help me connect to Lower Manhattan more than I already have, and I am looking forward to bringing excitement, events, and news to the public.