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Interview with a homeless hotel owner…
It’s not news that there are a lot of homeless individuals and families in New York. The NY Times published an eye-popping statistic the other…
Getting “inside” the arts…
I went to see the David Hockney exhibit the other night at The Met (and if you want to see it, hurry because it’s only…
I was not looking forward to seeing “The Post” but…
I was dreading seeing the newspaper film “The Post” which depicts the historic Vietnam-era battle over the secret and highly classified Pentagon Papers. It features…
The new wave of feminism….
The powerful men are falling like dominoes, seemingly every day, from accusations by women who were very young and very vulnerable but are not any…
We are a nation of financial illiterates….
I heard a startling statistic today. Since 2010, the USA has created 18 million new jobs, far more than were lost in the great recession.…
The fix is in for our subways…
The MTA has a new boss–Joe Lhota–and the guy has a plan to fix the subways. That’s a good thing. I’ve been riding the subways…
2017– The Summer of Hate
Fifty years ago this summer, the baby boomer generation went through its infamous Summer of Love. It was 1967 and anything seemed possible. Minds were…
Blogging about not blogging….
A couple of my friends recently mentioned to me that I hadn’t been blogging as much lately and that’s true. So why is that, I…
R.I.P. Jimmy Breslin, his own best character….
Rest In Peace Jimmy Breslin. I saw him first-hand at his best during the days when Son of Sam was writing Jimmy those crazy letters.…