the city I love: Archive

the city I love

January 2012

4 posts

Famous Blue Raincoat. The Original. That kind of...

December 2011

3 posts

This could be the best thing ever (slight...

Why didn’t someone do this sooner! Finally (soon) a way to put all that metrocard change to good use. MetroChange from Genevieve Hoffman on Vimeo. via Dailydish

My Glorious Return... With Fish Ass

I’ve been so busy with life and stuff that it’s been over 2 months since my last tumble. Oops. Anyway, yesterday I went candy shopping with @jackfrombkln at our favorite candy place. A place with a whole aisle of crazy candy, much of it labeled in foreign languages or, in this case, poor attempts at English. Would anyone care for some Jelly Fish Ass? No, I didn’t actually...

October 2011

1 post

September 2011

4 posts

The first Daily Show after 9/11. You will cry. via @jackfrombkln

New York - What we were before; what we are now. →

THIS. And so much more. I’m so glad my livelihood does not depend on my ability to write coherently on this topic.

August 2011

1 post

July 2011

3 posts

June 2011

2 posts

May 2011

2 posts

No Sleep Til Brooklyn

This was mentioned on a recent Slate Culture Gabfest (I <3 my podcasts) and I just had to go digging through youtube for a good version.

If you love cities....

Random: my new favorite podcast is Radiolab. It’s a perfect blend of smart, geeky infotainment. And so, as I do when I fall in love with something new, I’ve been going back and listening to the archives. If you love cities you MUST listen to this podcast on cities. At least once. // ]] // ]]]]>]]>

April 2011

2 posts

What I will be thinking the next time I'm on the...

Man Races Crosstown Bus on Bigwheel and WINS. Thanks to Nixie for sharing.

March 2011

1 post

I’m welcoming myself back to tumblr, after being away for far too long. And who doesn’t love Welcome Back, Kotter? Ooh ooh ooooooh! Mr. Kotter, Mr. Kotter.

January 2011

2 posts

I made this awesome new playlist for my blog. Just had to share it here, too!

Mental Health Break - The Daily Dish | By Andrew... →

December 2010

6 posts

I should've taken a picture

My plans for the day got all messed up. The snow… So I decided to go for a walk. I got all bundled up and headed out, not quite sure where I was going. Just out for a walk in the snow. And then, well, it was coming down harder/faster/earlier than I realized. I don’t know what possessed me, but I decided to head towards Times Square. I usually avoid that part of town like the...

Got up early this morning to run errands and realized that (once again) I was out of coffee. So I stopped at my corner bodega to grab a cup on the go. I walked in and heard the guy behind the counter say, “large coffee, milk and sugar?”. I’m finally home in my new apt. The guy at the corner bodega knows my coffee order. Things are falling into place.

November 2010

1 post

It’s been one of those days. Thank god for...

October 2010

2 posts

Do You Feel Safe Here?

Yesterday, as I was taking out the trash, I realized that some guy was watching me put the trashbag in the can in front of my building. He’d been walking past the building and then he just stopped and was watching me. Like he was waiting. Which freaked me out. I didn’t recognize him and I wasn’t feeling chatty (me = dirty hair in a pony tail, sweat pants, not-so-clean t-shirt)....

September 2010

5 posts

Dear Non-Native New Yorkers

You know I love you. This city wouldn’t be nearly as fabulous if it weren’t for all the amazing people moving here from all over the world, pretty much every day. And I’m not just saying that. But here’s the thing - fresh bagels don’t get toasted. Not if you’re eating them with cream cheese. And I’m getting tired of having to point this out (note:...

I Will Never Forget

I wanted to not write about this today. To shake it off this year. To stay outside and enjoy the sunshine. The sky is so blue. Just like that other morning. I was at work. On the Lower East Side. Once news got around, work stopped and we all - hundreds of us - found ourselves out in the middle of the street watching the towers burn. I remember a couple of parked cars with their radios...

August 2010

3 posts

How wrong can a guy be? Let me count the ways... →

The headline is, Where Guacamole Does a Star Turn. And being the guac lover that I am, I read it right away. Now, let me be clear, Sam Sifton got it right about Toloache. The guac rocks. It’s just that he got everything else wrong. He’s starts with one of the least accurate statements I’ve ever seen in the NYTimes (and lord knows there’s plenty of competition for that...

July 2010

3 posts

I know, I know. I haven’t been around...

June 2010

6 posts

A Glimpse of NYC, Ctd (via @DailyDish) →

I’m a non-driver by choice. That is, not only don’t I own a car, I don’t even possess a driver’s license. And yes, I realize this marks me as a special kind of freak. As a non-driver by choice, there are very few places in the US that I could live and not have my non-driver-ness negatively affect my life. Some small towns, I guess. San Francisco, maybe. And my home, NYC....