Mr NYC

Much has happened in the last few years but cast your mind back to the halcyon days of 2022. Here's something that happened to NYC thank...

So today a member of the British Royal family was arrested for public corruption. And the former president of South Korea was sentenced to l...

I love history. Even though this is a blog about NYC, I'm obsessed with late 19th and early 20th century European history, the decades w...

I thought Americans voted for lower grocery prices and the cost of living but really it was to free Greenland from 700 years of Danish oppre...

Greetings! I haven't been blogging for the last couple of weeks because I've been super busy and also traveling internationally -- m...

Listen to this brilliant British guy -- and his funny impressions of an American accent -- talk about the 2024 election: He confesses that t...

Great cities don't just have beautiful buildings, fun neighborhoods, vibrant economies, wonderful culture, and diverse populations -- th...

One of my heroes is the great 13th century traveller and chronicler Marco Polo. A native of Venice, a man of his city, he ventured far away ...

If you were a teenager in the early 1990s like moi , you remember the 1992 "classic" movie Encino Man . It was one of those very s...

Thirty-years ago this month a little arthouse movie opened that portended a cultural revolution: Reservoir Dogs , the debut of director Quen...

There's a lot of buzz these days in the media (social and otherwise) about "cancel culture." I honestly don't know what it...

We are in the Dark Ages. The 21st century version of the Dark Ages. The last 20 years has been a non-stop series of body blows -- botched el...

As the world drifts through this weird, new normal of COVID-19, we know that life "after this" (whenever that is) will be differe...

After last night's historic impeachment vote of Donald Trump -- his greatest presidential achievement and the only thing he's ever ...

So a dancing proudly gay TV talk-show host named Ellen DeGeneres sat next to a former conservative Republican President named George W. Bus...

Let's face it: these new highly restrictive abortion laws in Alabama, Missouri, and elsewhere are really based on one thing: hatred. ...

The following are my incredibly deep & brilliant thoughts on this whole college admissions scandal which is ballooning from a news stor...

Okay, so here's the deal -- I really, really, really, really, really, really want you to follow @MrNYCBlog on Twitter. I post link...

Headline: "Trump: I miss New York." Hey Donnie -- we don't miss you!  Please don't come back! But, if you do, I h...

Sometimes it feels like we're living in a highly bi-polar country.  On one side, things have never felt more scary and dire: a real...