Friday, March 29, 2019

Interview: Sonia Harcourt, Activist, Businesswoman, and Adult Entertainer

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Sex work is having a moment. For centuries, nay millennia, society has hypocritically craved the services of sex workers while shunning the...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Water Main Break - March 26, 2019, 4:25 PM

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Mr NYC is 12 Years Old Today

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Today is not my real birthday but its Mr NYC's birthday, and so I/him is officially twelve years old . Happy birthday to me/him! ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

"Quantum Leap" @ 30: The Golden Age of TV and NYC

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We live, now and forever, in the "Golden Age of Television." TV shows are better than ever, thanks to cable and streaming. Televi...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

The NYPD Made a Porno

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Years ago I worked briefly at an academic publisher and was instructed to clean out some old files. I found, buried within a stack of aband...
Friday, March 22, 2019

The Malls of NYC

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When the new Hudson Yards development opened last week, NYC didn't just get a new neighborhood, it also got a new mall . Even thoug...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Review: "King Lear" on Broadway

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Shakespeare plays are always challenging to consume -- they are both thrilling for their gorgeous language and wonderful characters, and so...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

S*%*%T New Yorkers Say

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"I told her if you gonna talk to me like a man, I'm gonna beat you like a man. That's what I told the cops. Then I smoke crack...

Message to all Fellow NYC Parents

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There's an outbreak of measles in Brooklyn right now and this is scary -- it's the worst outbreak in this city in decades. Can...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Transformation

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When 9/11 happened, thousands tragically died and the world changed forever.  And so, physically, did NYC. The mighty Twin Towers h...