When I Was Your Age …
One of the things that I am determined NOT to become is a cranky old person. Okay, it’s easy to see why a lot of old people turn into curmudgeons. It can be hard to […]
One of the things that I am determined NOT to become is a cranky old person. Okay, it’s easy to see why a lot of old people turn into curmudgeons. It can be hard to […]
1. You can feel the heat of the pavement through your shoes. 2. You shake your head at tourists wearing flip-flops on blazing Manhattan sidewalks, and wonder how long it will take for all those […]
I have angst—serious angst. It seems in a few days a major brood of bugs will be descending upon the East Coast. When I first heard about this, I needed to find out more information […]
This was just too funny to pass up and not show. As a Bronx-born girl who spent most of her childhood in northern NJ, this is just great! However, even though they posted it on […]
1. If you take up the entire width of a sidewalk in order to photograph your fellow travelers, local people will cross right in front of your camera, giving you a free lesson in some […]
We New Yorkers and our city have gotten a bum rap over the years. Everybody thinks we are worse than we are. Even New Yorkers think that other New Yorkers are worse than they are. […]
The New York City subway system accommodates over 7 million rides each week.[1] A good portion of these are repeat customers, so the number of actual riders is probably much lower, but you get the […]
News stories can be a rich source of laughs. Take this one, for instance: AP Tuesday, June 28, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — A man who climbed atop a traffic light and briefly stopped […]
An interstate brouhaha is underway between Houston, Texas and New York City over the final resting place for the space shuttle Enterprise. The shuttle, which never flew in space, but was the test model for […]