My year in New York was wonderful. Unforgettable. Life-changing, etc. But we all knew that was how it would go. This post is not to reminisce on New York, but to explain my drought in blog posts with a story. I was robbed on my last night in New York City. I left the house [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Upper West Side'
Heat Wave
July 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos, Upper West Side
In case you haven’t heard, it’s really hot in New York City. Two 100-degree days in a row now. All this week, the hydrant has been gushing on my block. Today after my run, I jumped in. I checked “play in an open fire hydrant during a hot summer day” off my NYC to-do list.
Imagine.
June 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art, Photos, Upper West Side
The rain cut short my Sunday picnic, but we wandered and found the John Lennon Memorial. I’m going to miss New York City. Everything is here.
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Emergency surgery
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Education, Journalism, Manhattan, Music, Photos, Queens, Upper West Side
I got a call just before midnight last night. It was CJ, with whom I have been spending lots of time for my master’s project on pit bulls in New York City. His oldest (and dearest) of his two dogs, Snow, had been peeing a lot and he had just passed it off as a [...]
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Blizzard hits 109th street
February 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · Humor, Manhattan, Photos, Upper West Side
It’s snowing here in New York City. Schools are out all over the city. Even I had my classes cancelled. As a Michigander who spent four years in Burlington, Vt., I can’t say I’m overly impressed by this “blizzard.” But when a city the size of this one gets hit by a decent amount of [...]
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Kiddos
November 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Humor, Journalism, Manhattan, Upper West Side, Writing
Every Tuesday around noon, I return home to grab a meal and retreat into my thoughts before returning to class. It also happens that at noon the children of PS 135 descend on the playground outside my window. I never get the retreat I’m hoping for. From my perch at my kitchen table, my window [...]
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Some NYC Shots
November 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Manhattan, Photos, Upper West Side
I took a walk around my neighborhood near Riverside Park. Perfect autumn mid-afternoon light.
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I JUST FREELANCED
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Manhattan, Multimedia, Upper West Side
As you can see from the post below, my buddy Matthew Huisman and I covered/rode in the 2009 Broadway Bomb longboard race. We got our story and video published at the Westside Independent. Check it out here.
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Broadway Bomb 2009
October 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Manhattan, Multimedia, Upper West Side
On Saturday, my buddy Matt and I went out and covered the Broadway Bomb, an unsanctioned longboard race that ran from 116th Street and Broadway all the way down to 10th Street in lower Manhattan. Call it what you want: illegal, underground, grassroots, it was pretty incredible to see. In all, I think the skateboarders [...]
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Food, Trinkets and Pashmina on Broadway
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos, Upper West Side
For the past month or so, I think there has been a street fair on the stretch of Broadway at the end of my block every weekend. Yesterday, they shut down the uptown lanes of Broadway all the way from 109th (where I live) to 116th Street. After a morning spent biking through traffic with [...]