New York

60 posts

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

A Subway System in Your Pocket

12:29 AM
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The NYC subway map chopped up into little tiles for your iPhone.

Thu 23 Aug
2007

Four Pictures

11:10 PM
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Presentable pics from a week with visiting family.

Tue 17 Jul
2007

New Site, New Blog for AIGA New York

11:42 PM
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A new face and voice for the New York chapter.

Tue 29 May
2007

You Got to Move It, Move It… to Brooklyn

07:12 PM
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If you live in New York City and work in media, another borough awaits.

Tue 24 Apr
2007

Putting the High in Highrise

11:19 PM
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First day in a new New York Times building.

Tue 03 Apr
2007

Lately at AIGA New York

11:16 PM
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Digital goings on for Spring at the New York chapter.

Mon 11 Sep
2006

Five Years

10:02 AM

Thinking about September 11th half a decade later.

Wed 30 Aug
2006

Forest for the Banners

09:56 PM
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Public art from AIGA New York in Times Square.

Mon 14 Aug
2006

AIGA Wants YOU

05:52 PM
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A wealth of opportunities at the New York chapter of AIGA.

Thu 03 Aug
2006

Before the Blackout

11:05 PM
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Retail businesses get through heat waves differently from people.

Wed 07 Jun
2006

How to Shoot People (and Places and Things)

11:35 PM
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Initial results from the photography class I just enrolled in.

Fri 19 May
2006

A Glass House on Fifth Avenue

09:08 PM
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A quick visit to Apple’s new retail store on Fifth Avenue.

Thu 27 Apr
2006

Event of the Summer

05:46 PM
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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

Strike Force Delta

11:07 AM
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Sheepishly, some good things about the transit strike that hit New York today.

Tue 13 Sep
2005

The Write Stuff: Paragraph

05:43 PM
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New work for my old lady: an identity and Web site for Paragraph, LLC.

Mon 25 Jul
2005

I, Jury

09:15 PM
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I got jury duty, and I kind of really want to serve.

Tue 12 Jul
2005

The City in Seventy-Seven

11:45 AM

Jonathan Mahler’s account of New York City at the edge of disaster.

Tue 05 Apr
2005

Replacing iPod Earbuds

11:31 AM
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Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.

Wed 09 Mar
2005

Day in Court

08:53 PM
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The wonders of our criminal justice system.

Sun 20 Feb
2005

Barbarians at The Gates

03:31 PM
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US$21 million dollars on an art project makes some people angry, and that makes me angry.

Tue 15 Feb
2005

Walk This Way

06:58 PM
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Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.

Mon 06 Sep
2004

Little Bit of Little Saigon

10:09 PM
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The exception to New York’s rule for lackluster Vietnamese restaurants.

Sun 22 Aug
2004

Painted into an East Village Corner

05:53 PM

Locally painted canvases at the Howl! Festival of East Village Arts.

Mon 09 Aug
2004

Ooh, Ooh, It’s Magic

10:31 PM

The magic — and magicians — of old New York.

Thu 03 Jun
2004

Teach a Man to Fish

09:34 PM

My day started very, very early this morning at the Fulton Fish Market.

Fri 14 May
2004

A Little Bit of Nice

07:35 PM

I watched a kid get a cheap egg sandwich this morning.

Thu 01 Apr
2004

Manual Dexterity

06:17 PM

I found a little bit of old New York when I tried to get a typewriter repaired.

Tue 23 Dec
2003

Old Drawings of New York

09:57 PM

The reissued “This Is New York” from M. Sasek.

Sat 06 Dec
2003

Twelve Inches of Fun

08:12 PM
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Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.

Thu 11 Sep
2003

On This Day

09:41 AM
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This morning, many people went to work without compunction or fear.

Thu 28 Aug
2003

Labor Day Weekend, Citysearch-Style

06:35 PM
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It’s nice to spend the holiday weekend in New York, bu don’t count on Citysearch.

Sat 16 Aug
2003

Scenes from a Blackout

10:26 PM

What I did to preoccupy myself during the blackout.

Fri 15 Aug
2003

Where Were You When the Lights Came Back On

09:55 PM
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The end of the biggest blackout in American history finally comes to the East Village.

Mon 28 Jul
2003

Location, Location, Location

07:56 PM
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The struggles of moving two blocks away.

Mon 21 Jul
2003

Ill Communication: It’s Hot

05:44 PM

Heat is hard on the unwell and the four-legged.

Tue 10 Jun
2003

The Morning Commute

11:28 AM
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Two anecdotes from my daily walk to the office.

Fri 09 May
2003

Hat Trick

11:44 PM

What better present for a girlfriend’s birthday than a customized baseball cap.

Thu 08 May
2003

The Man without a Face

05:58 PM
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It’s impossible to find an image of a local suspected serial rapist on the Web.

Sat 12 Apr
2003

Tokenism

11:07 AM

The NYC subway token is officially retired as of today.

Tue 01 Apr
2003

Fool’s Cold

11:14 AM

April Fool’s Day odds’n’ends

Thu 26 Dec
2002

Waterworld

12:39 PM

A Costneresque vision of New York.

Fri 23 Aug
2002

Last Year’s Model

04:33 PM

Elvis Costello in graffiti form.

Sat 06 Jul
2002

Word to the Weiserman

11:02 AM

How one man foiled a scam.

Sun 30 Jun
2002

Subway Gold

10:38 PM

Dude, check out this map I got off some dude on the street.

Mon 17 Jun
2002

Village Veloce

02:51 PM

Random violence in my neighborhood.

Mon 10 Jun
2002

Mob Mentality

07:40 PM

John Gotti has left the building.

Sun 09 Jun
2002

Life and Times

09:59 PM

Reading about the family behind The New York Times.

Sun 02 Jun
2002

Who What Where

10:46 PM

A map of New York City bloggers.

Sat 06 Apr
2002

French New York

11:13 PM

Watching old Movies abotu New York.

Wed 30 Jan
2002

Keep Stills

10:18 PM

The MOMA’s Film Stills Archive is going away.

Mon 12 Nov
2001

Two on Nine

11:02 PM

Ninth Street shopping.

Thu 01 Nov
2001

Damn Yankees

06:36 PM

Watching the Yankees.

Thu 06 Sep
2001

A Three-Hour Tour

10:16 PM

Getting around Manhattan, I mean really around Manhattan.

Tue 19 Jun
2001

The City in Time/Space

09:15 PM

Four incredible views of New York’s growth.

Thu 19 Apr
2001

A Mean Town

02:46 AM

Some asshole lit a trash can in front of my building on fire.

Tue 20 Mar
2001

Like a Bouncing Ball

11:32 AM

I found myself in New York again last Friday.

Mon 08 Jan
2001

A List of Things I Consumed

12:00 PM

A list of movies, books, magazines and other pop junk that came my way in the year 2000.

Wed 20 Dec
2000

It Don’t Cost Nothing

11:05 AM

On leaving New York: a tip on how to make life here more pleasant.

Fri 08 Sep
2000

Anywhere I Go, Here I Am

12:00 PM

Leaving New York a second time isn’t going to be much easier than leaving it the first time.

Mon 17 Jul
2000

New York, See You Later

12:00 PM
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As I prepare to leave New York for Asia, some parting thoughts.