New York Neighborhoods Project: SoHo's Highs and Lows

It's been a while since I've worked on the NY Neighborhoods Project , and this neighborhood in particular has been a long tim...

New York City Staycation

I’ve been MIA for a while, and I’ll explain about where I’ve been soon.  In the meantime,  I think it’s time to bring things back to NYC. ...

Catskills Weekend: Hiking

The point of this trip was to do some hiking, and even if I might have given the impression so far that all we did was eat, we did inde...

Catskills Weekend: Woodstock

My mom was a hippy--or at least she would have been if she'd been born in the US and if my grandma had been less strict. Still, as...

Catskills Weekend: Saugerties

Our homebase during or our Catskills weekend was the little town of Saugerties , NY.  The word quaint comes to mind. The core of the c...

Catskills Weekend: Mohonk Mountain House

Picture the opening scene to Dirty Dancing —Baby and family pull up to a swanky mountain resort with affluent guests playing silly gam...

NY Neighborhoods Project: Spirited Away to Flushing, Queens

Sometimes you don’t have to travel very far to feel a world away. It turns out that if you hop on the number 7 train and ride it all ...

NY Neighborhoods Project: 4th of July in the Financial District and Les Halles

Normally, I’m a big fan of fireworks, but this year Greg and I just didn't feel like fighting through the crush of humanity to find...

NY Neighborhoods Project: East Village Sampler Platter

Forces in the universe conspired to have the East Village be the first stop on the NY Neighborhoods Project a couple of weekends ago. Cir...