Foxxxy's Local Profile

Local expert in New York, Houston and Houston

"I travel a lot shopping for fashions that I sell in my store. So I know lots of streets very well in lots of cities!"

StreetCred

Level 2 (399 points)

Member Since

May 2008

32 Reviews View All

Avenida de Las Americas, Houston, Texas

3/5Average

“Behind the Ballpark, Into the Pretty Park”

This isn't New York City, but the Avenida de Las Americas in Houston is interesting all by itself. The street, part of the new east Downtown redevelopment, runs behind the shiny new Minute Maid ballpa...Full review

Crawford Street, Houston, Texas

5/5Excellent

“Crawford Street, Home of the Astros!”

Even though I am a girl, I love going to baseball games. I've been to a Houston Astros game four times, and my favorite place to sit is in the "Crawford Boxes", which are cheap and fun seats with thei...Full review

Main Street, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“A Good Old Fashioned Main Street”

Every city's Main Street is supposed to be a key street and the center of commerce and travel, and Houston's Main Street lives up to this. The shuttle train runs down this street, cutting downtown per...Full review

Beechnut Street, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“Bargains in the Middle of Expensive-Land!”

I love Houston but it is a very expensive place to visit, and I can only imagine it's an expensive place to live. It's a city full of rich oil people, after all. I can only look at so many $5000.00 ha...Full review

Post Oak Boulevard, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“Home to Ritzy Shopping and Ritzy Living!”

Post Oak Boulevard is a long street that connects the more workaday parts of Houston (see Westheimer) to the ritzier suburbs, and then exits out in the cheaper landscape of the south. Right smack in t...Full review

Rice Boulevard, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“Like a College Town in the middle of a big city!”

Rice Boulevard is the main street into "Rice Village", and the main street that runs through it too. The Village is the neighborhood of small shops, restaurants and cafes next to Rice University, and...Full review

Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“Endless Street of Shopping, Eating, Everything”

Westheimer Street in Houston is such an amazing and long street that it's almost impossible to described it all at once. My very most favorite shopping neighborhood in Houston is at the downtown end...Full review

Bagby Street, Houston, Texas

1/5Terrible

“Home to the Scammy Aquarium, Tourist Trap!”

Bagby Street in the northern tip of downtown Houston is home to the "Houston Aquarium" which probably attracts a lot of people who come to see a giant aquarium full of first. But this is a tourist tra...Full review

Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas

4/5Good

“From the Heart of Downtown Houston to Vietnamese Heaven”

Louisiana Street in downtown Houston is the heart of the business district. I like the Hyatt Regency here, a great hotel that has a street-facing glass elevator -- if you don't get enough of an eyefu...Full review

Milam Street, Houston, Texas

3/5Average

“First Stop in Downtown Houston”

Milam Street is one of the first streets you'll encounter in downtown Houston. Whenever I arrive, whether I take a taxi into the city, or a shuttle bus, or even the (shockingly nice) city bus from the...Full review

Leicester Square, London

5/5Excellent

“Leicester Square is Movie-Ville”

Leicester Square is a short street and big plaza just a few blocks east of Piccadilly Circus and a few blocks west of Covent Garden. Instead of nightclubs (Piccadilly) or theatres (Covent Garden), Lei...Full review

Covent Garden, London

5/5Excellent

“Just Up from Piccadilly, The Theatre Starts Here”

Covent Garden is an area of London famous for shops, bars, restaurants, opera, and most of all theatres, and also the name of the area's main street. The street expands into a plaza lined with resta...Full review

Victoria Embankment, London

4/5Good

“A Romantic River Walk Street”

Victoria Embankment is a lovely old stately street that winds along the north side of the Thames river, from the Tower of London all the way down to Parliament and beyond. You can hop onto any of Lo...Full review

Portobello Road, London

4/5Good

“The Biggest Market I Have Ever Seen”

I had an amazing experience here. My crazy boyfriend tricked me into waking up at five AM to take me here -- he lied about what time it was to make me get up and I didn't realize how early it was unti...Full review

Camden Street, London

5/5Excellent

“Camden and Camden Locks, Amazing Market in Camdentown”

Camden Street, in Camden/London, is the home of Camden Market and Camden Locks, the most amazing jam-packed alternative market in London. It's block after block after block after block of alternativ...Full review

Commercial Street, London

4/5Good

“A Great Old Market Street”

Commercial Street sounds like a business district, but really it's where the amazing Spitalfields Market in London is. The market is almost four hundred years old, and is still mainly a food and veget...Full review

Southwark Street, London

5/5Excellent

“London's Best Sunday Walking Street”

Southwark Street (and the Jubilee Walkway that's part of it) is the recently remodelled walkway along the south side of the Thames River in London. My boyfriend took me for a romantic walk along thi...Full review

Tottenham Court Road, London

5/5Excellent

“My Home Away from Home Street in London”

Whenever I visit London, I stay in a lovely flat right off Tottenham Court Road, and so it's sort of my home neighbourhood. It has several tube stations, including the self-named one and Goodge Street...Full review

Oxford Street, London

5/5Excellent

“Oxford is Retail Wonderland”

Oxford Street is the most amazing shopping street I know. It doesn't have malls or big American-style stores (though there is a very cool Debenham's), but it has hundreds and hundreds of individual sh...Full review

Piccadilly, London, Greater London, England

5/5Excellent

“The Heart of London's Night Life”

Piccadilly Street is one of the oldest streets in London, but it's also one of the most exciting. My very first night in London, my boyfriend dragged me out to this street and I was amazed at how full...Full review