Category Archives: New York
Spring in New York, Sort Of
The cherry blossom would indicate that spring has finally arrived. The fact that it was close to freezing overnight and there were snowflakes yesterday would indicate that it hasn’t. Anyway, for a few days now the streets of New York … Continue reading
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Musical Cars
In order to make life more exciting, the New York Department of Transportation (DOT) has developed a game for car owners called Alternate Side Parking. Based on Musical Chairs it starts with everyone going and sitting in their cars for … Continue reading
Wild Bill Drucker
This weekend, between discovering that the taxi that was supposed to pick us up and take us to our house in the hills got the wrong date, and discovering when we finally got there that the water wasn’t working and … Continue reading
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Onion Square
Union Square Market has been an enormous success ever since it began in a small way back in 1976, although in those days the market was tiny and the square was yet another needle park. We moved our office down … Continue reading
Back in the Big Manzana
Back in the Big Apple and straight to Zabar’s for all that junk that Nooyawkas like us dream about when they are in Mexico. I have previously posted about how crowded our Polleria on Insurgentes is in San Miguel. This … Continue reading
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Fall Color
The Fall colors have been wonderful this year, somewhat later than usual, and lasting for several weeks rather than several days which is more normal. Perhaps one of the few pleasant consequences of climate change.
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We’ll Soon be Drinking That
Just south of Woodstock, in the southern Catskills, and just inland of Kingston, the Ashokan Resevoir is the main source of water for New York City, sitting in a largely unspoiled watershed area. We get to come through here each … Continue reading
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Whiter than White
This little guy turned up on our lawn Upstate this summer. A completely white albino chipmunk.
Stuck on the GW Bridge
This last weekend there was a tragic tractor trailer accident on the GW Bridge, and as luck would have it, we happened to be crossing it the following morning when they decided to remove the wreckage by crane resulting in … Continue reading
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Winter Colors
It’s time to pack up and head south again. We were hit by our first spell of snow and below-freezing temperatures in New York this week, not that that seems to slow down New Yorkers any and not nearly as … Continue reading
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