Tag: NYC
New York, New York, a hell of a town.
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Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for
Dragging my cheap three-wheeled suitcase home from Penn Station after a Boston business trip late Tuesday night, I passed three businessmen standing in the middle of Park Avenue with their raincoats awry. White, pushing 40,…
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Homeownership is a privilege, not a right
The throbbing Christmas music that has accompanied all action thus far seems inappropriately sedate as I cross the lobby perspiring like a bridegroom, bearing my newly filled-out forms.
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No heat at $5,000/month
Libertarians blame rent stabilization for the problems of tenants in cities like New York, but there are few rent stabilized apartments left in this town or in this building. Most people in this building pay…
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A date with Sandra Bernhard
A bowel movement in the shape of a swan.
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Into the murky deep
Tucked away in a quiet corner of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street sits a small, clean, neatly appointed classroom. At 3:30, we commandeered it for an impromptu meeting with an attorney.
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Don’t sleep here
Barely noticed in the builders’ gold rush, the poorest poor, pushed off the benches of Madison Square Park, take shelter in the very construction sites that signify their doom. (Photo essay.)
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Faster, pussycat
Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.
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We live as we dream
My cold is in its second week; I slept less than four hours last night. Yesterday we decided to check out the housing market in our neighborhood and ended up making a bid. Tomorrow, if…
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God Knocks
“It’s becoming a bedroom community for people who work on Wall Street,” the Wife says of our beloved NYC. Today a small one-bedroom costs over a million. But if Osama bin Laden could not chase…
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September 12
A gloomy, rainy September 11th in New York City. An eye doctor visit in the morning left my eyes dilated. For hours, I was overly sensitive to light. It was a perfect way to experience…
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Bang!
Had I known that there was an explosion in midtown Manhattan and that my wife and daughter were out in the chaos, I would have been far more anxious during my train ride home from…
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Happy Cog redesigns, 2/7/2007
Good redesigns are like Mr Mancini’s mustache. Happy Cog has redesigned.
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Cold
Nice weather we’re having.
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Our Year in Review
And yours?
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Happy Cog Philadelphia
The Cog expands.