Life and living in Manhattan and all five boroughs, including news, history and the people who call the city their home.
Mon 27 Aug
2007
The NYC subway map chopped up into little tiles for your iPhone.
Thu 23 Aug
2007
Presentable pics from a week with visiting family.
Tue 17 Jul
2007
A new face and voice for the New York chapter.
Tue 29 May
2007
If you live in New York City and work in media, another borough awaits.
Tue 24 Apr
2007
First day in a new New York Times building.
Tue 03 Apr
2007
Digital goings on for Spring at the New York chapter.
Wed 30 Aug
2006
Public art from AIGA New York in Times Square.
Mon 14 Aug
2006
A wealth of opportunities at the New York chapter of AIGA.
Thu 03 Aug
2006
Retail businesses get through heat waves differently from people.
Wed 07 Jun
2006
Initial results from the photography class I just enrolled in.
Fri 19 May
2006
A quick visit to Apple’s new retail store on Fifth Avenue.
Thu 27 Apr
2006
I’ll be there as a speaker when the rolling design conference, An Event Apart, comes to New York in July.
Tue 20 Dec
2005
Sheepishly, some good things about the transit strike that hit New York today.
Tue 13 Sep
2005
New work for my old lady: an identity and Web site for Paragraph, LLC.
Tue 12 Jul
2005
Jonathan Mahler’s account of New York City at the edge of disaster.
Tue 05 Apr
2005
Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.
Sun 20 Feb
2005
US$21 million dollars on an art project makes some people angry, and that makes me angry.
Tue 15 Feb
2005
Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.
Mon 06 Sep
2004
The exception to New York’s rule for lackluster Vietnamese restaurants.
Sun 22 Aug
2004
Locally painted canvases at the Howl! Festival of East Village Arts.
Thu 03 Jun
2004
My day started very, very early this morning at the Fulton Fish Market.
Thu 01 Apr
2004
I found a little bit of old New York when I tried to get a typewriter repaired.
Sat 06 Dec
2003
Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.
Thu 11 Sep
2003
This morning, many people went to work without compunction or fear.
Thu 28 Aug
2003
It’s nice to spend the holiday weekend in New York, bu don’t count on Citysearch.
Fri 15 Aug
2003
The end of the biggest blackout in American history finally comes to the East Village.
Mon 28 Jul
2003
The struggles of moving two blocks away.
Tue 10 Jun
2003
Two anecdotes from my daily walk to the office.
Fri 09 May
2003
What better present for a girlfriend’s birthday than a customized baseball cap.
Thu 08 May
2003
It’s impossible to find an image of a local suspected serial rapist on the Web.
Mon 08 Jan
2001
A list of movies, books, magazines and other pop junk that came my way in the year 2000.
Wed 20 Dec
2000
On leaving New York: a tip on how to make life here more pleasant.
Fri 08 Sep
2000
Leaving New York a second time isn’t going to be much easier than leaving it the first time.
Mon 17 Jul
2000
As I prepare to leave New York for Asia, some parting thoughts.