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MONDAY
Dinner at L’Ecole (the restaurant of the French Culinary Institute) – $$
feeling like I was back in Paris – priceless
TUESDAY
Dinner at Simply Pasta with Cavy – $$
Going to an amazing concert at Radio City with Cavy – priceless
WEDNESDAY
Repairs on my computer that wouldn’t turn on a week ago – $$$$$$
Retrieving files off my computer – [...]

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threat levels

Walking through the intersection of 60th and Park last night, I was surrounded by the steam spewing from three massive tubes that had been propped atop the manholes there. Running along the river today, I narrowly missed falling into a hole in the hexagonal-tiled pedestrian/bike path. The much publicized, and much mocked, [...]

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subway shoulder reading

At J’s suggestion and on loan from her brother, I am reading a book called “Black Rednecks, White Liberals.” The book is by a conservative, black Stanford professor named Thomas Sowell. It’s not something I would normally read, but my south Bronx experiences have tempered my initial stance on a specific set of [...]

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if you want to work in mar’s store

After indulging in a white peach glazed donut and a blueberry lemonade, I went fake-shopping in Soho with an FIT design student. I learned a lot about sleeves and salesmanship.
First, there are three types of sleeves that you are likely to find if you go shopping in Soho. The kind that [...]

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most romantic street performers ever

Walking due north along Poet’s Walk, past the Naumberg bandshell, and down the steps towards Bethesda Fountain and Navy Terrace, there is a beautiful tiled sancturary straight out of a European fantasy. Softly lit at night and graced with phenomenal acoustics, it is my favorite place to walk in the city. Last night, [...]

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$2 water and the america dream

Sheeps Meadow at dusk on a Friday captures the perfect blend of green, sky, and city. The colors are fantastic, the view is framed by beautiful architecture, and the sprawling, rolling meadow seems unchanged over the centuries since the Dutch arrived. Those founders of New Amsterdam did not mow grass with power tractors [...]

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lsd required

On Friday nights, the Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue is free (and so’s MoMA, thanks to Target). Their current exhibition on the Summer of Love attracted a block long line to the small museum last night that snaked down 75th street. I passed it between meeting with my city mom [...]

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the once and future everything

“What,” I have wondered aloud, “would the city be like if it was still called ‘New Amsterdam’?” Would there be more prostitution? More religious tolerance? More drugs? More art? It’s diffucult to imagine more of the tolerance or the art since there is so much of both here, but the [...]

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