I have a great fondness for the Flatiron Building. Located at the point of Fifth Avenue/Broadway and 23rd (punctuating Madison Park), The Flatiron (completed in 1902) is generally considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. I used to work there – back in the day and people are always curious about that. [...]

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London has been very much on my mind of late – not just because I’m in the midst of a new Gotham Girl series over on the Boris Johnson site* Speaking of which – the latest edition is all about bike share programs. Of course, Gotham Girl is supposed to compare how London and NYC [...]

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Though a total non-fashionista, Gotham Girl loves street style & checks out the sartorial streets of London & NYC. Last year, New York beat London hands down on the street food front – this time around, London gets a bit of it’s own back. Today marks the first Friday of the season on Governors Island, [...]

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E. B. White said, “There are roughly three New Yorks” – that of the native, the commuter and the transplant.  I think he’s on to something, but I think he didn’t go quite far enough.  So I thought I’d ask a variety of people – some New York born, some who have lived here for [...]

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The other day, I (along with a lot of friends and fellow NYers) were laughing about the recent Gawker post “A Few Rules for Tourists Visiting New York City This Summer” – which showed someone having painted a line down the sidewalk with one side for tourists and one side for NYers. It got me [...]

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