I know I did, or maybe it was not so much that I lost my balance as that I was afraid I would and then I would fall and break some part of me that I really needed in one piece. Also, oddly the seat on my well-loved Raleigh seemed to have gotten higher. Did…
Here are a few cheap but good choices near home. A huge bowl of hot home made potato chips with a creamy blue cheese dressing over them for $8, followed by an equally large portion of crispy fried calamari Brooklyn style with marinara sauce for $12–total cost for the meal–$20 and sharable. Plus—and this 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…
Street upon street of restaurants, bakeries, pastry shops, and markets cluster around Arthur Avenue, 187th Street and the area sometimes called Belmont, Fordham or Little Italy in the Bronx. There is still a small Italian-American enclave living locally but even more important, many of the stores are still owned and operated by the original families…
If you are one of those who enjoys winter–more power to you. The rest of us get through it, sometimes welcoming it, sometimes detesting it. As a California transplant whose husband never tires of telling me that New York has a moderate climate, not to be compared with Chicago or Boston in the winter, I…
