Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Mr NYC Ahead of His Time

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Just last week I blogged about the difficulties that NYC Comptrollers face when they run for NYC mayor -- only one comptroller, Abe Beame, h...
Friday, July 26, 2024

The Bowery Boys Go to Holland

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It's no surprise that I'm a big fan of the NYC podcast The Bowery Boys , blogging about episodes every so often and interviewing one...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Curse of the Comptroller

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In the final season of  The Crown , Prince Charles ruminates: "To be Prince of Wales is not a position -- it's a predicament."...
Monday, July 22, 2024

"Tonight Show" from 1968 in NYC

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Thursday, July 18, 2024

NYC's Top Historical Sites

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Politics makes history -- that is something that we are depressingly learning the hard ways these days. But hard times make history, and peo...

Classic Mr NYC

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In the wake of the 2008-2009 cultural phenomenon "Jersey Shore", guidos and guidettes become, very briefly, all the rage. Hence, m...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

"The In-Between" Borough: The Bronx as Paradise Lost

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You must read this article from The New Yorker where the legendary writer Ian Frazier chronicles his many walks around the only NYC boroug...

Meteor Fireball Over NYC

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Monday, July 15, 2024

Dr Ruth RIP

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A Holocaust survivor, an immigrant, a pioneering and influential sex expert, Dr Ruth was an inspiration and an American original. She has pa...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Clocking the Passage of Time

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 "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives ..." Thus spake Saint Augustine. Or an old soap opera. Either way...