Last night was a bit of a stroll down memory lane for me, food wise. I spent many years working in the Flatiron district – my first three jobs out of college and the internship I had my senior year all happened within the confines of that immediate neighborhood. During that time, I had more [...]

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I love a good local history and at the moment, I am current reading Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Mogul and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum by Michael Gross.  Gross’ name may ring a bell if you read 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building (which I didn’t [...]

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I got a heads up the other day on The City Concealed, a new web only series from THIRTEEN, part of the WNET Public Broadcasting family. This is so my kind of thing. Looking at the city from vantage points you normally can’t get to or didn’t know existed? Why are all the coolest things [...]

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I recently did a quick site for fellow New Yorker Ellen Shumsky who has a new book of photography out called Portrait of a Decade 1968-78. These are remarkable photographs – the student uprisings in Paris, the people of Croatia and Cuba, Vietnam War demonstrations, Gay liberation marches of the day, and some amazing shots [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen – I have returned. Possibly you are asking “Were you gone?” but on the off chance that someone is asking themselves, “From where?” I shall tell you. I have been in the Northwest Corner area of CT, dog sitting while my parents gallivanted across the globe and then assisting the aforementioned parents [...]

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