Mr NYC

When I started this blog almost three years ago, it was never meant to be a nostalgia blog, a "those were the days" kinda thing. I...

This week the great writer and notorious recluse JD Salinger passed away at the age of 91. A native New Yorker, he wrote stories about huma...

The following comes courtesy of my father-in-law. Enjoy. To maximize your dining experience it is IMPORTANT to follow these simple rules of ...

Last August I blogged about the growing debacle of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- the housing developments on the Lower East S...

If today's vicious rain and winds weren't enough misery for New Yorkers, it was a blow upon a bruise that was the New York Jets'...

In my continuing salute to vanishing New York grit, here's a clip from the great 1980s TV show Night Court . Set in a Manhattan court, i...

While gritty old NYC certainly has its charms, it also many downsides -- like massive police corruption. In the early 1970s, honest cop Fran...

Where, oh where, has it gone? Across the eons, what made NYC such an endlessly fascinating place for native and visitor alike was that our f...

It's now old news that the sale, a couple of years back, of the Plaza Hotel to an Israeli investor has turned out to be a disaster. Vani...

Last night Eddie Izzard kicked off his Big Intimacy tour here in NYC, and I had the pleasure of seeing it last night at the Garden. If yo...