Mr NYC

Ten years ago today I wrote one of my favorite blog posts -- Farewell to Funky Town . It was the last day of the Bloomberg era, the end of a...

It's hard to imagine but once upon a time, back in the 20th century, orchestra conductors used to be actual celebrties. Arturo Tosconini...

Before the 21st century Golden Age of Television, the 1970s through the 1990s was the Golden Age of the Television Mini-Series. Whenever reg...

True crime documentaries and podcasts have become a booming business in the last few years -- especially taking decades-old tabloid stories ...

When this blog debuted in 2007 blogs were just starting to become a Thing. By this time of the mid-aughts most people had gained access to h...

Death is a complex thing. Everyone dies eventually but not in the same way.  Some people live long lives and die peacefully at a ripe old ag...

Lin Manuel-Miranda is probably the most famous son of Washington Heights . The other is Henry Kissinger. The 1970s US Secretary of State, wh...

The short, bizarre congressional career of George Santos has come to its predictable, ignominious end. He should be proud -- he's made ...