One frigid afternoon in late December, many years ago, my brother and I hopped on a train headed for Grand Central. Upon our arrival, we marveled briefly at the constellations and the narrow walkways between the high windows, before transferring to a downtown express. We couldn’t stifle our grins and the train couldn’t hurtle past […]
Food: A holiday tradition with a long history Read More »
Sweden is a place of plenty of holiday celebrations. My American friends usually say midsummer with the fertility pole and the wacky dances when I tell them about Swedish holidays, but to me — and I’d wager few Swedes would argue against this — no holiday is as anticipated as Christmas. Further, I would argue
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Over the years I’ve spent a whole lot of time at our two Village library branches, and as a result I sometimes end up making friends with the librarians. Lately I’ve gotten to know head librarian Emil Allakhverdov, who’s been at Hudson Park since 2017. He’s an Armenian who grew up in Ukraine, and he
Unassuming repositories of history Read More »
The New York Public Library is really bringing it all back home with its small but stunning exhibit Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912-1923. The tightly curated show, open until February 1, fills two rooms on the first floor of the flagship location on Fifth Avenue. If you love the Village and its history, don’t miss
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New York City is known for many things, arts and culture, food, fashion, a diverse population, a fast pace, an ambitious lot of people, and perhaps nothing embodies the caldron of those elements as well as the NYC coffee house. A scene, that ranges from cozy corner spots, to drip coffee only diner counters, to
The Greatest Love of All…The Relationship Between a New Yorker and Their Coffee. Read More »
Just last summer, a global NGO named Food Tank wrote about community gardens in their newsletter. “Urban agriculture offers a multitude of economic and environmental benefits to New York City that are overlooked. When properly resourced, it can be utilized as a framework to achieve food justice and create a more sustainable food system rooted
Community gardeners rally at City Hall, by George Fiala Read More »
Introduction “Fishes, Purple,Tiny…a “60s tale” is a somewhat anthropological snapshot of a time before the digital revolution of computers and cell phones. Today’s reader may find it hard to imagine a world with only 5 tv channels, milk deliveries, and neighbors whom you knew. People of this era would never walk while they drank coffee,
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THE RACE IS ON I moved to Venice yesterday. A woman smiled at me as I walked into Café Gratitude. I bought a pyrite crystal at a yoga center on Lincoln I happened by on my walk home. Pyrite is supposed to be a protective stone, blocking out negative energies and repairing any tears in
Fragments of life, Short Stories by Joe Caccamo Read More »
The blank page I begin to fill with these words reminds me of the emptier streets, shops and restaurants in the Town of East Hampton, as we task ourselves with Christmas tree removal, thank you notes, sending sons and daughters back off to college with, we hope, warm, newly formed memories and greater appreciation for
