Notes From The City

On occasion I've been adding in stories of my life to these pages, reflections and memories of my history in New York and in places wher...

Something else really nice happened the other day that is a real Christmas story. There’s a very sweet older lady who lives in my neighborho...

When I first moved to New York, many years ago now, my mother sent me an ad from the New York Times for a sale at a kitchen supply store by ...

It's the time of the year when berries appear on trees and the leaves have fallen or are falling. Years ago a friend told me that the ye...

The first year I lived in New York, I bought a very small tree near one of the supermarkets on 110th Street and Broadway near where I was li...

This past week I received an email that was a very lovely surprise. Someone who I'd met a few months ago who is part of a group who host...

A few months ago Hoboken had the Art and Music Festival which is something that in years gone by I always loved to go to. We missed a year a...