Latebreaking Friday Upper- and Outer-borough Blogging

by | Apr 10, 2009 | Odds and Ends

Save Coney Island benefit @ Southpaw, Saturday 11 April [Kinetic Carnival]Notes on a pre-Parkchester New York Catholic Protectory — with a terrific postscript on a Staten Island Protectory alumna and the secret file the nuns held over her head for years [Bronx...

Upper- and Outer-borough Blogging

by | Mar 20, 2009 | Neighborhood Scenes

Okay, I admit it. I’m one of those downtowners who hardly gets above 23rd St without a toothbrush and sleeping bag and who visits Brooklyn and Queens a couple times a year. It’s something I’m not particularly proud of. (Don’t ask me the last...

Country country country home

by | Aug 5, 2008 | Odds and Ends

Tuesday morning, before the rest of the RV park is stirring, I’m sitting in front of our borrowed motor home with my laptop, even farther away from Gotham than the last time I posted. I haven’t unpacked any cameras to illustrate, but if you were to upend...