I’m driving three miles from Long Island City to Greenpoint, and I’m terrified. In rural Pennsylvania, we were taught to drive defensively - politely. Crossing every intersection in New York…
Good copy involves digging for facts before a word is written, not whirling around to a typewriter keyboard, and starting to bang out words. —Schwab, How to Write a Good Advertisement…
If you need a dose of Hamilton after Hamilton, here's half a dozen places to visit where you can take selfies with Alexander or walk in his footsteps. But first ...…
Monet and other Impressionists who worked in France beginning in the 1860s were famous for their obsession with depicting transient effects of light. In my opinion, the Luminists obsessed over light in…
The Kosciuszko Bridge, dedicated in 1939, carries the BQE at a dizzying height across Newtown Creek. It's a notorious bottleneck on the BQE, and like much of New York City's…
On November 26, 1783 - the day the British finally evacuated New York - General George Washington rode down Broadway with New York Governor George Clinton, amid the applause of…
I've been an atheist for decades, so it took some poking and prodding and peeling of my psyche to figure out why I like this piece so much: it's clearly…
Through May 1, 2016, the Metropolitan Museum has on display Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, a selection of luxury furniture from the late 19th century. There isn't much gilding: silver was the…
Lord Acton wrote that Lafayette taught his compatriots the American "theory of revolution, not their theory of government - their cutting, not their sewing." Gouverneur Morris told George Washington that…
From Oct. 9, 2015 through February 21, 2016, the New-York Historical Society ran an exhibition on superheroes of Gotham. I didn't even realize it was there, which is a nasty thing that happens…