New York: Bits and pieces – parks, places, shops and more

I could write and talk about New York for ever, but I fear this is getting a little like an interminable slide night at your Auntie’s house, so I’ll finish with a few bits and pieces Some random bits of NY style This little cutie was so proud of the Obama hat he got for [...]

New York: Music, bars, poets and comics – so much to do, so little time!

Along with the gentrification and creeping hipness comes that wonderful NY thing which we so sadly lack in Sydney, little neighbourhood bars. We didn’t get to enough of them, and I say we, because the majority allow children accompanied by adults. Barbes, in Park Slope, Brooklyn was one bar we went to a couple of [...]

New York: Egg cremes, sandwiches, eating the POTUS, Latin noms, burgers & the best doughnuts in the world

Is Sturgeon kosher? Who invented the Egg Creme and how do people digest it? Should you smother the POTUS? Why can’t Americans make coffee? These and many other questions are covered in this post about our culinary adventures at the lower end of the NY food market.

New York City: life is a movie

If you’re lucky enough to strike a native Bronx or Brooklyn resident as we did a couple of times, or an older Lower East Side resident for instance, you’ll  have the joy of hearing those voices you are so familiar with from the screen in real, loud, glorious life – complete with witty asides, sayings [...]