Mr NYC

Damn, never though I'd see this: there's an upcoming HBO documentary about naughty NYC late-night cable TV host Robin Byrd who ran ...

Well, well, well, Mr NYC really is ... well, maybe not exactly prophetic than certainly perspicacious.  In the early days of this blog I wro...

Well this is certainly a Mr NYC first: I'm reviewing a current Broadway show that I had previously blogged about as being a historical c...

If a building could be called a Drama Queen, then NYC's most drama-filled building is the Ansonia on West 73rd-74th street and Broadway....

Last year, after my visit to Paris, I blogged about the amazing exhibit there displaying items from the movies of Wes Anderson. Few directo...

Well, I'll be darned. Mr NYC's powers of prophesy have hit again.  In 2021 I blogged about the late 1980s Broadway musical Chess , ...

In 2017 I interviewed  the journalist Ross Barkan when he kicked off his campaign for State Senate in Brooklyn. He made the bold decision to...

American politics has gotten ugly -- and, as we know, quite violent -- in the last few years. And especially yesterday.  It's easy to po...

Recently I blogged about the decline of late night TV, especially here in NYC. Now others are doing the same. Again, Mr NYC is ahead of hi...

So today is a combined Classic Mr NYC and Mr NYC Ahead of His Time post: First, the Waldorf-Astoria is reopening after an eight-year renovat...

Okay, doing two Mr NYC Ahead of His Time(s) in under a week may be a little shameless but I can't help it -- I really am. See, when it c...

The 2025 NYC Democratic Mayoral primary will end on June 24th and it will go down in history as one of the most befuddling in our fair city....

If you're a fan of the White Lotus series, you'll note that there are lots of scenes of characters lounging by pools or laying in b...

I might be forgiven for claiming that I possess a crystal ball. I don't -- but I certainly have, over the years, written about things lo...

Fourteen years ago I blogged extensively about my visit to Jamaica Bay . A massive wildlife refuge and national park located on a variety of...

In 2021 I blogged about the infamous NYC madam Polly Adler . Now there's a great little video bio of her you can watch. But remember, yo...

Five years ago, on New Year's Eve 2019, I did a big interview with former adult film start, and current Native American activist, Hyapa...

As the legal inferno involving Mayor Eric Adams continues to burn, some NYC scribes are rememebering other mayors from times gone by that al...

So it finally happened, even faster than I imagined. Eric Adams is the first NYC mayor to be indicted while in office. For more on the compl...

Just last week I blogged about the difficulties that NYC Comptrollers face when they run for NYC mayor -- only one comptroller, Abe Beame, h...