It’s easy to forget how much time one spends in New York just trying to get from Point A to Point B. As suburbanites, we are used to hopping in a car and driving to places with plenty of free parking. Transportation has all but been erased as a hardship in our lives. In New York, we were either hoofing [...]
Sometimes the best laid plans are the most last-minute ones. This seems counter-intuitive, but just think what impromptu action spares you: over-thinking, over-planning, over-waffling. Late last Wednesday night, my friend Lindsay emailed from her business trip in NYC asking if I could run up, go to dinner, and spend the night on Thursday. I didn’t [...]
Unlike the disaster averted in yesterday’s plane crash into the Hudson, a horrible disaster occured in New York’s other river back in 1904. It was so awful nobody thought it would ever be forgotten. And yet how many of us have heard of the steamboat General Slocum? Hands? Nobody? Exactly. I certainly hadn’t, until I [...]
I arrived in the Big Apple yesterday for a 24 hour whirlwind business trip. When all is said and done I will have spent 10 hours working, 6 hours sleeping, and 6 hours of downtime and 2 hours fighting U.N traffic. Usually when I am in NY (and not getting all my hair cut off [...]
