Then, Now Here are some before-and-afters from a set of photos my parents took on a visit to Manhattan in 1985. I tried to replicate the angles as best I could in the mo...
Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner What It Is : LimoLiner is an executive-class bus service from New York to Boston (or vice versa) that gets you from the center of one city to the other...
How To Visit New York: Outside Opinions As I’ve been sharing my opinions about how to visit New York this week, I’ve been lucky enough to get some great responses from other people on the web, and to...
New York Changing New York Changing is a fascinating then-and-now series of photographs showing how Manhattan has changed over the last century. Thanks to Jason for the link...
A city covered in coasters Last week, my former employer decided to include an AOL promotional CD in each copy of the newspaper that was distributed in Manhattan. Now, the thing you ha...
Bringing It Home A chance for fabulous cash and prizes! Rich rewards! We’re looking for a new apartment, here in Manhattan between midtown and roughly Canal Street, with one...
Checking In Just a quick note to everybody who’s emailed. Thanks for checking in and I’m fine. I wasn’t in Manhattan when the lights went out. Daily links will resume on M...
Return of the Dot-Coms It’s been a few years since I had a dot-com that I really, really liked. Sure, we’ve had Amazon and Google looking out for us these past few years, but it was...
heros or whatever Here in Manhattan, they have a statue of Gandhi in Union Square Park , and I was kind of hoping they’d have a little plaque that said, "He drank his own...
David Gallagher's Spidey spottings David Gallagher does a great job of pointing out the real-life locations for some scenes in Spider-Man . The thing that intrigues me is how much of the acti...
Back At Work I’m back at work. It took longer for me to get here to the East Village from the Upper East Side than it did for my co-worker to get to Manhattan from Philadel...
Today, Asian Dub Foundation and Today, Asian Dub Foundation and Living Colour with Mos Def . When people ask me why I live in Manhattan, it’s days like today that are all the explanation I n...
While I'm being an art While I’m being an art appreciator, please to be seeing Manhattan Timeformations , a visual history of my city, all in Flash. I love the history of Manhattan....
bra-optional day Here in Manhattan, the City takes it upon itself to suspend the Street Parking Rules whenever it snows, in addition to the usual holiday calendar. This suspe...
Oh man! You people are Oh man ! You people are savages. Well, I have no understanding of my site’s traffic patterns or your voting habits, so I had no idea that I’d have almost 100...
Cars vs. People; A Triumph of the Feet "The vitality of a city comes from its pedestrians, not its cars." Tampa Bay Online has a dramatic series of photographs illustrating an article...
There needs to be a There needs to be a Fry’s Electronics in Manhattan. My patronage alone could keep it profitable for a long time. And also, why is their website such a piece...
Ev mentions that he noticed Ev mentions that he noticed the McDonald’s McVeggie burger that he saw when he was here in NYC. Mentioned because they’ve been "testing" it for y...
Even for Manhattan, this is Even for Manhattan, this is weird: They just changed the direction of traffic on 33rd Street next to our office. Ripped out a “one-way” sign, turned around a...
Peter said I'm an idiot: Peter said I’m an idiot : Calling all New Yorkers! You are an idiot if you live or will be near Manhattan tomorrow (June 3) and do not attend Excavating...
The City Review has a The City Review has a nice architectural rundown of Manhattan, I’m surprised how much of the Review I agree with....
If you've got a Palm If you’ve got a Palm in NYC, download X-Man , a Manhattan address locator. Cool beans. If not, just print out this page ....
Someone give me some insight Someone give me some insight on PHP . I’m realizing I’m probably going to have to jump with both feet into PHP for a project at work, but I’m trying to avoid...
An interestingly eventful day yesterday, An interestingly eventful day yesterday, as winter used to bring 6 inches of snow to the area, but we woke to 6 inches of mud . Sadly, I was too occupied wi...