New York City generates billions of dollars in tourist revenue every year. Seeing and experiencing New York City should be on everyone’s to-do list and if you haven’t been here, you’re missing out. Arguing about New York City is also its own industry. There are books and websites dedicated to letting you know what you… Read more »
In March of 2001, I saw a procession of people marching behind a fire engine down a street in Greenwich Village. I followed to see what was happening. It was a 90th anniversary commemoration in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which remains one of the deadliest event of its kind in New York. Firefighters stood at… Read more »
This past weekend the wife and I packed our two baby girls into their car seats and drove upstate (upstate defined as north of the Bronx/Westchester border) to celebrate the 90th birthday of my Grandmother, Mary Sheahan. They don’t make New Yorkers like Mary Sheahan anymore. My Grandmother immigrated from Ireland and went through Ellis… Read more »
The other day, someone asked me what I thought a “New Yorker” was. My first response was a New Yorker is not about what was, New Yorkers are about what is often before anyone realizes it. Besides this though, the question seemed impossible to answer. That person could have asked me to count all the… Read more »
I am a stay-at-home dad. Even before I was a stay-at-home dad, or any kind of a dad, back when I was just a plain old local New Yorker, I often felt like a zoo animal. It had to do with the way I was viewed by out-of-towners as they passed by, staring at this… Read more »
