AskaNewYorker: So who are you? Michael: I’m Mike Faulkner. I’m president of Transversified Marketing Group. AskaNewYorker: That’s a lot of diversity. Michael: It is. It’s a corporation that is a subsidiary of Diversified Development Group Inc. AskaNewYorker: Further diversity…what’s Diversified Development Group about? Michael: It’s a company that helps firms in their corporate development. AskaNewYorker:… Read more »
AskaNewYorker: So what’s your name? Danny: Danny. AskaNewYorker: What do you do? Danny: I’m a grad student in architecture. AskaNewYorker: What did you think of the movie “My Architect, the Biography of Louis Kahn”? (An obvious question to ask an aspiring architect) Danny: I’m not really a fan of Louis Kahn, but to hear his… Read more »
Meet Arianne Cohen, author of the book Help, It’s Broken! A Fix-It Bible for the Repair-Impaired. AskaNewYorker: I am just trying to remember how we connected. Arianne: I think I emailed you. I looked at AskaNewYorker.com when I was first moving to New York. I saw the website way back when and I knew I… Read more »
Here is the long-awaited interview with Marvella, the mother of one of my dearest friends. She is a true New Yorker with a remarkable spirit, who invited me to her East-side apartment for coffee and a chat. AskaNewYorker: What a welcome! Thank you, Marvella, this is a beautiful platter. Marvella: Oh, thank you. The coffee… Read more »
We met up with Aaron one night during an art experiment with his roommate Edina, and visited him one Saturday morning to catch up. Ask a New Yorker: Good morning Aaron. What did you do last night? Aaron: Went to the art shows, the Williamsburg art thing that they all do. We had plans to… Read more »
Manhattan is ground zero for networking and the grist for legions of what are sometimes termed New York “stories,” accounts of astounding serendipity. Although the term “six degrees of separation” was brought into common parlance by the playwright John Guare, and the popular movie of the same name, the theory of one person being linked… Read more »
Brooklyn, around noon, on a summer day. At first I felt sorry for the man who was hit by the subway train. Then annoyed. The police hoisted the bloodied fellow out of the station on a stretcher up to street level and into an ambulance. The requisite police investigation meant I couldn’t get into the… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker had a previous meeting with Ms. Jessica Eliasi, a marketing executive for NYC Marketing, and we met again at the Coffee Shop in Union Square at 8:30 am on a chilly fall morning. AskaNewYorker: Good morning, Jessica! You’re looking very “uber” today, so early in the morning. My first question: is… Read more »
I met up with Pat Addiss, a Broadway producer, at the National Arts Club at Gramercy Park, where she invited me for lunch and a nice chat. AskaNewYorker: Hi Pat. What’s going on here today? Pat: Well, I’m rehearsing a reading that we’re doing tomorrow. I was up in the rehearsal room. Somehow or another… Read more »
On a gorgeous fall day, we stopped Angie coming out of the Whole Foods at 14th Street… AskaNewYorker: What have you been up to on this great day? Angie: I got up, went to Whole Foods, and got myself some strawberries. AskaNewYorker: What did you do last night? Angie: I just hung out with some… Read more »
