Tag: nyc

Woman in Uniform

Miss? Miss?” He doesn’t sound particularly confrontational and I give him my best blank smile, hoping he has some kind of mundane procedural question.

“I don’t mean to like bother you or anything, but if you’re not busy, and a beautiful lady such as yourself is probably busy, but if you’re not busy I’d love to buy you a cup of coffee.”

Now I have to grin. This is my new favorite person in the world. What chutzpah! I’m so delighted by this guy that I almost chuck him on the shoulder. Then it hits me. He doesn’t recognize me, at all. He has no idea that I’m the person who arrested him 2 nights before.

Eating at the bar is the best

I don’t get why eating at the bar is considered a last resort. It has many benefits: there’s usually no wait, no wobbly tables, more comfortable for tall people, service is excellent and you can talk to your dining companion more easily in a loud space. Plus there’s usually something interesting going on behind the bar.

T.G.I. Friday’s Invented the Singles Bar

TGI Friday’s wasn’t always a suburban family restaurant, but started as a coed cocktail bar in manhattan at a time when bars were men only. when TGI opened with a friendlier design, they created such a hit that 1st avenue was closed to traffic every friday and saturday night.

Brooklyn Reclaimed

Brooklyn Reclaimed, a place that is built on the idea of keeping with tradition, a collection of artists that included 5Pointz curator Meres One, came to once again give all of us a place where we can see the art form flourish.

KCBC Coming soon!

KCBC should open in a few months, somewhere in brooklyn.
2016-07-05:

Reviving Dead Spaces

In a dense city like New York, the residual space beneath the 1100km of elevated transportation infrastructure can no longer be an afterthought. The millions of m2 of these sites, nearly 4x the size of Central Park, arguably encompass one of the most blighting influences on the city’s neighborhoods, yet also constitute one of the last development frontiers