Mr NYC

I'm not going to blog about Eric Adams anymore until something definitive happens -- namely, that he ceases to be mayor. So this will be...

Over the years I've blogged about my love of Venice, the great Italian city of isles that, in some ways, is the true spiritual sister of...

So it finally happened, even faster than I imagined. Eric Adams is the first NYC mayor to be indicted while in office. For more on the compl...

Reincarnation may not exist but sometimes, as the saying goes, "what's old is new again"; people or things from the past are e...

The daily weekday soap opera used to be a staple of daytime network television. All My Children, Guiding Light , One Life to Live and so ma...

Things haven't been going too great for NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in case you hadn't heard . In fact, the stench of his travails has waf...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Power Broker , Robert Caro's brilliant book about the career of NYC master builder Robert Mo...

I'm a big fan of the author Rachel Kushner -- her 2013 novel The Flamethrowers a personal favorite. She also has a new novel coming out...

The brilliant actor James Earl Jones recently died at the age of 93. Yes, I know, he's best known as the voice of Darth Vader and the L...