Open House New York, the fourth of its kind, opens many of these buildings up.

If you are in NYC during September 22-24, this may just be about the coolest thing that you could do. The Come Out and Play Festival is all about street games in the middle of New York City.

Sure, anyone can travel around the world if they had enough time and money.

I found this very interesting article in the New York Times the other day about how the next influx of tourism is Chinese. Entitled “Next Wave of Camera-Wielding Tourists is from China,” go read it now before they make you pay for an archived article. I’ll do my best to summarize it here:

In the 1980’s, […]

Some of the most fun I’ve had while taking road trips around the East Coast is stopping in small towns and shopping for antiques.

I’ve always been interested in secret things: secret rooms, hidden passageways, and revolving doors. I like the shady nooks and crannies, places you might not see with the unexperienced eye.

Blue train: a day to pack up my East Village digs and a day to move to Harlem. It’s been like Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumble-Bee,” in a jazzy sort of way.