Mary Arda
4 min readMar 16, 2019

West 44th Street

Tranny prostitutes and a life-changing call.

A few years after leaving Miami, I scored a small one-bedroom apartment in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. After years of sharing a home with a husband, lovers, and friends, I was thrilled to have a place in the city I could call my own. Memories that will last a lifetime were created in that apartment. It offered me a late night view of Manhattan’s raunchiest tranny prostitutes and was…

Mary Arda

Lover of the written word, cooking, food anthropology, music, roots, and family. Storytelling NYC-Cuban. Side gig — publicist and marketer.