Friday, July 29, 2022

What if New York City was a Country?

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A couple of interesting facts you'll discover among many others in this fascinating video: if NYC was it's own country, it would hav...

Gotta Love New Yorkers

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Recently, during an Uber ride, my driver's phone rang and up popped the picture of a pretty young lady with the name "Mybaby."...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Subway Series 2022 - Game 1

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Friday, July 22, 2022

The Loeb Boathouse Restaurant Closes -- For Now

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Sad news : the Loeb Boathouse Restaurant in Central Park is schedule to close in October. Originally built by Calvert Vaux in the 19th cent...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

How to Survive an NYC Heatwave

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Monday, July 18, 2022

Review: "The Minutes"

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Fourteen years ago, in the first year of this blog, I reviewed August: Osage County , a brilliant epic Broadway play about a dysfunctional f...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Moody NYC

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The New York Times recently published a big article  about ... how people are feeling. About how they feel about NYC and their lives in it....
Saturday, July 9, 2022

James Caan RIP

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Son of the Bronx, actor extraordinaire, James Caan aka Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, has passed away at age 82. Ironically, even though ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

"Stay with Me Tonight"

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Here's a fascinating historical artifact -- a music video from 1983 (back in the days when MTV was riding high and actually showing vide...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Mr NYC in Germany

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This past week I was in Germany for a work BUT I did get to do two side trips -- one to the Rhine River Valley and another to the city of He...