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The Vaccine Rollout
- January 20, 2021 8:43 am·

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Two Time Loser
- January 16, 2021 1:05 am·

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We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Basket
- January 8, 2021 3:35 pm·

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Trump’s Silence Was Louder Than His Bluster
- January 3, 2021 12:22 am·

The Vaccine Rollout
In mid-December Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine began getting shot into the arms of New York City residents. The Moderna vaccine, which was actually developed over a…
- By steve·
- January 20, 2021 8:43 am·

Two Time Loser
On January 13th, the House voted second articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. He’s the first president in history to be impeached twice. A few…
- By steve·
- January 16, 2021 1:05 am·

I Love Fado
It’s a curious thing. I can almost remember the very moment I got “into music”. My parents always had records playing on our Motorola cabinet…
- By steve·
- August 2, 2020 8:25 pm·

The Best Commencement Speech Ever
I’ve followed Victor Wooten‘s career for years, since he began working with the improbably banjo-based jazz fusion band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. There are…
- By steve·
- October 15, 2019 2:34 pm·

The Disappearing Brooklyn Stoop
Brownstoner posted a terrific, in-depth article about something topically relevant to this site. But it’s also something that I’ve noticed all over NYC since the early…
- By steve·
- July 28, 2019 2:47 pm·

What will $9 million get me in Brooklyn?
What’s the most expensive/least affordable city in America? Most people would answer San Francisco because of all the tech money or Honolulu because, well, who…
- By steve·
- June 18, 2019 4:35 pm·

It Doesn’t Have To Be The “New Normal”
As America and most of the rest of the world come to terms with a virus that’s killed 1.1 million people worldwide, 225,000 in the…
- By steve·
- September 26, 2020 1:19 am·

“I’m Leaving This City!”
New York City is a city of dramatic memes, urban legends and doomsday rumors. It’s the city of 8 million stories, and a million of…
- By steve·
- September 1, 2020 3:46 am·