New York in the Time of Blossoms

There’s a dramatic shift that takes place between the end of winter and the full flourishing of spring time. Earth … More

Update: Joe O’Donoghue’s ‘Happenstansically Beautiful’

In October, I wrote about a chance meeting I had with Brooklyn- based artist named Joe O’Donoghue and his newly … More

This afternoon I filled my travel mug with coffee, laced up my snow boots and walked around Boerum Hill and … More

Dumbo is small and steep and low. When it rains, it floods. The streets are unsteady, the buildings are old … More

The experience of walking through Dumbo at night has changed enormously in the past few years. Since the development of … More

You know those stories where someone finds a random object that turns out to be a key to a very … More

The magnificent Jean Paul Gaultier show at the Brooklyn Museum ended with a swarming salute from the last round of … More

Williamsburg, Brooklyn contains its fair share of eccentricity and style: little oddball shops and cafes, full blocks of beautiful murals, … More

The Chocolate Room in Cobble Hill Brooklyn is the kind of cafe you can enter comfortably in a group of ten, … More

I ran into Tazza when I got lost in Brooklyn Heights on a cold, rainy day. It seems that many of the … More

*** Sadly, Palmyra closed for good in 2011. Over the summer, I happened upon a little cafe called Palmyra whilst … More