Tag: NEW YORK
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Hyperlocal Brooklyn
Though I live in Astoria, I spend much of my time reading about Brooklyn and going to Brooklyn because I write for brooklyntheborough.com. One of the things I quickly learned is that Brooklyn — other than being the artist/hipster/musician mecca of New York — is also a blog mecca. Here’s a sampling of the few…
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Where the balloons live
Before I headed back to Richmond, I ventured out to the city yesterday for some pre-Thanksgiving fun. Nothing sounded more awesome than watching balloons being inflated by the Museum of Natural History for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. I imagined myself happily snapping away as the balloons slowly took form and floated into the big blue…
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Street musicians, Central Park
I had a few hours to kill before a meeting yesterday so I wandered over to Central Park. I’d gone there planning to take pictures of trees, but was drawn to the street musicians instead (finding bare trees at The Mall swayed things that way). There was Boris, the saxophone player from somewhere near Argentina.…
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Luxury condo auctions
My latest story, about luxury condo auctions, is now up: “At Brooklyn’s first luxury condo auction, agent advises ‘buyer beware.’” To get an idea just how long it had been since I’d written an article, my last one was published in January. But I didn’t sit idle long. I moved back home to Richmond, saved…
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Yankees fans
Despite not being a loyal or even a casual fan of baseball, I braved the NYC streets to see the Yankees parade. After wandering around aimlessly, I followed groups of people in Yankees gear to what ended up to be the worst spot ever. We missed the floats because the players were all dropped off…
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Making sense of the abstract
Pic Source: The Guggenheim New York Abstract art has always gone over my head. Never having taken an art history class (unless you count the one in Barcelona, where my Spanish professor droned on and on about something or other as he faced the wall, and we his back), I’ve always favored logical, realistic pieces.…
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Countdown to New York
“It is our numerous weak ties, rather than our fewer strong ones, that really matter. The idea that proximity to total strangers is more important than connections to lifelong friends may seem strange, until you think about how networks function. The beauty of weak ties is that they bring us new information. Chances are, you…