New York City

Last September, I found myself in a classic dilemma for recent college grads. I had just moved to New York City and had few social connections. My social skills had gotten a little rusty from nearly two years of Zoom and FaceTime, so I decided to break the ice with…

One of my favorite places in the world is the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd St., Manhattan. — A number of my books were born here, specifically in the Rare Books and Manuscripts and Archives Divisions. And the New York Public Library (NYPL) became a protagonist as well. How could it not? It has beauty, history, mystery, lovers, enemies, and verse, prose, and hieroglyphics in all languages. …

“I don’t think they believed they could get out alive.” — There’s always been something about New York in the 1970s that I’ve been drawn to. I’m not sure if it’s the seedy decadence or the wild west type of lawlessness, but this decade came to define the city in ways that saw its people at their most fascinatingly primal and…

Real life, Grand Theft Auto, is that you? Heatwaves and power outrages have always stalked to disrupt summer in New York City. However, inside the panny sirens and the echoed screams that terrorized DAY were an added bonus. I’ve not been a fan of news cycles since yellow journalism made…