In these winter months, bargains are to be had at many NYC events, museums and attractions, some of which are offered through various discount newsletters. One of them is Goldstar and it is free to sign up. This week, offers will get you half price tickets to a few of my favorite places. One is…
In these bitter cold days, when some of us have been felled by the flu (despite flu shots and bundling up)– it helps to remember the second half of our trip to Brooklyn. The first half, you may recall, was the visit to the Transit Museum, a post that seemed to have unlocked a lot…
The two things most people remember about Charles Lindbergh are that he flew from New York to Paris in a 33-hour solo flight in 1927 and that he and his wife were the victims of a horrific child kidnapping and murder. Most Jews and many others also remember that he was a vocal anti-Semite, racist…
If you have never been there or, if the last time you were there was when your children raced wildly from one car to another, as Mary Lou’s did, you owe it to yourself to see it again. Arriving in the heart of downtown Brooklyn,I was once again amazed at how big and important a…
Nothing, but nothing will keep New Yorkers from their art as we found one cold snowy day. We arrived at the line at 10:20 on a Friday and confidently expected to get in. In fact, the guard told us we would. We enjoyed looking at the park and chuckled at the folks who left the…
When my friend Linda walked in with two violins slung over her shoulder, I asked why. The 1805 German one was hers, she said, and the other, the one in the venerable alligator case, had belonged to her father who had died about a year earlier. Bernard, who lived to 98 and played the violin…
That would be 1899, as the Met’s new production of Die Fledermaus (the Bat) is set on that turn-of-the-century date, not a bad idea. A full house did not turn up last night, the eve of the polar vortex’s worst day in New York so far. But many of us did come and it was…
