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Busy, Locally: The MTA’s War Against The City of New York

You are not dreaming, this gloriously empty train only happens at 4AM. (photo credit: Henry Casey) I don’t think of local news, especially in its televised form, to be worth the attention it receives....

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A Godless Socialist’s Christmas

Santa Claus, that fat old sod, as drawn most famously by Thomas Nast   A Brief Preface Somewhere between the years 6 BC and 6 AD (to use the Christian nomenclature) in Bethlehem (one of the only...

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Felipe on the Bottom Rung

The building where "Felipe" lived I try not to get personal in these blog posts, but sometimes… I am a teaching artist who is currently in the first of a four-year research project to determine the...

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Worst Hundredth Birthday Present Ever!

100 years ago at 29 Washington Place, New York, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames and down in history as the largest man-made disaster in New York until 9/11. The fire forced New York...

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The Four Fails Of Bicycling in a Big City, Plus: The Win Made of Fail

Some background: about a year ago, I threatened to be a more avid cyclist, a commuter. However, thanks to a pretty bad winter and a workplace that doesn’t really support cycling, I waved the white...

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