Tag Archives: New York City

Travel 1931: A Reflection of (racist) Times

Posted on Friday, 20 May 2011 by

  You are reading that correctly: “…every effort to appear civilized.” The author was Aleko E. Lilus and the article, “The Old Seaport of the Sulu Pirates,” appreared in the highly popular monthly magazine, Travel, October 1931 (Robert M. McBride & Co., Camden, … Continue reading →

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New York, New Year, 3 Restaurants

Posted on Wednesday, 5 January 2011 by

What am I saying? I had a pleasant, imaginative, moderately priced lunch in a major urban museum’s cafe? An oxymoran….0r lack of oxygen….? Just off the multi-storey glass atrium of the striking American Wing at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is … Continue reading →

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New York, New Year

Posted on Monday, 3 January 2011 by

Commerce has been the purpose of New York since its founding a mere 400 years ago. Because of its vast wealth, the world has settled within the city. In some cases pieces of the world have been purchased to reside in New York – from Egyptian … Continue reading →

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Affordable Manhattan – an oxymoron? (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, 18 November 2010 by

fireworks, Central Park, 6 November 2010 The unexpected fireworks were free, in celebration of the 2010 New York Marathon that would be run the following day. We had just stepped out of Pasha Restaurant on West 71st Street, when the booming commenced. It was an … Continue reading →

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High-Line over Manhattan

Posted on Thursday, 11 November 2010 by

I well remember the crumbling elevated rail (the Hi-Line) from 34th street to the warehouses, bakeries and docks 13 miles down  Manhattan. To my teenage eyes in the 1960′s it was all part of the look and aromas of the exotic multi-ethnic, … Continue reading →

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