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October 25, 2005Yonah Schimmel's KnishsLooking for a restaurant one afternoon on the Lower East Side, we happened by a tiny bakery with huge savory knishes displayed in the window...potato, kasha, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, mixed...Read this update "An Uncommon Friendship"After getting through Phil & Adri's New York Times and Wall Street Journal that arrive on our stoop every day it is difficult to find time for other reading. However,...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 25, 2005 07:29 AM
TrackBack | Category: New York City, Reading, USA Pierogis In GreenpointAround the corner from Josh's apartment in an almost all-Polish neighborhood Bob and I found an authentic Polish restaurant. Blackboards behind the cashier list items in Polish and English. When...Read this update October 24, 2005New York StyleMost everyone in New York is interested in looking stylish. The definition is different, however depending on the neighborhood you are in...whether on the affluent Upper West Side or on...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 24, 2005 07:19 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, New York City, USA Strangers in the "hood"I've never been in a city that has such diverse but tight little neighborhoods. The first question asked by anyone you meet, after what do you do, is where do...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 24, 2005 06:19 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Festivals & Ceremonies, New York City, USA October 23, 2005Blue RibbonA call from Amy: Would you like to run into Manhattan with me to pick up Josh after work tonight? Of course, I said! Bob had already eaten stir-fry at...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 04:23 PM
TrackBack | Category: New York City, Restaurants, USA Bouley Tasting MenuThere are 13,000 restaurants in New York City and urbanites, with cramped apartments and schedules, often eat out...whether take-out, order in, pizza slices or, on special occasions, in one of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 04:08 PM
TrackBack | Category: Food, New York City, Restaurants, USA Big Onion TourBig Onion Tours, the word "onion" being a play on the Big Apple, offers tours of neighborhoods of NYC. We chose the "immigrant tour" which shows how different ethnic groups...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 02:34 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, History, New York City, USA Central ParkIn any given week in the summer you can choose from any four or five street fairs and on this day we chose the Columbus Street Fair on the Upper...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 02:21 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, Festivals & Ceremonies, New York City, USA HarlemProbably the biggest surprise yet in New York is discovering that Harlem is not the ghetto as depicted in years past. Sprucing up campaigns have left streets spotlessly clean...little old...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 01:49 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, New York City, USA Washington HeightsThe "F" subway line, if you take it to the very end at the northern tip of Manhattan Island, lets you off in a Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. Everyone...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 01:08 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, New York City, Trains, USA Hop On Hop Off BusA good way to get a good overview of New York and to get a good look at the architecture is to sit in the upper level of one of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 01:01 PM
TrackBack | Category: Buses, Excursions, New York City, USA The New York AttitudeThe New York attitude is a lot more complicated than simple rudeness. According to a local, it's a mixture of being tough, brave, on your toes, jaded, overworked and intensely...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 12:02 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, New York City, USA The New York IdentityThis is a city of 8 million people-Bangkok's is 9 million-but unlike Bangkok, it's diversity is extreme. Therefore any generalization is sweeping. New York is a city for the young;...Read this update New York AncestorsIn the beginning of this country, the New England colonies were being settled by the Puritans who endeavored to spread their intolerant "purist" religion across much of rest of the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 10:03 AM
TrackBack | Category: History, New York City, USA Our Brooklyn NeighborhoodWe are subletting a pleasant newly refurbished two bedroom apartment on Pacific St in a multi-ethnic, gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood called Boerum Hill. Bob and I enjoy exploring New York...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 23, 2005 08:02 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, New York City, USA October 18, 2005Three Minute WeddingOn a lovely Sunday, September 4, 2005, Bob and I followed Josh and Amy to a specialty jewelry store in our gentrified Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn to pick up...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 18, 2005 08:41 AM
TrackBack | Category: Festivals & Ceremonies, New York City, USA October 17, 2005Wedding AnnouncementA few days before we left Portland, our son Josh, who is currently a chef at the Tocqueville Restaurant near Union Square in Manhattan, asked us to keep the following...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 17, 2005 08:03 PM
TrackBack | Category: Flights, New York City, USA Back To The WestIn mid-July, a year after leaving the States to travel through Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China and Thailand, I arrived back in LA on China Air...then Portland on Alaska. The...Read this update Third Culture KidsThird Culture Kids are children of expatriate families who live for a significant proportion of their lives in a culture other than their own, where they travel to many countries...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on October 17, 2005 07:09 PM
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