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I was born and
raised in Astoria. I was the first child of two New York native parents who
were both first generation New York Italian-Americans. When I had children of
my own in the 1970s, I had the good fortune of raising them in Manhattan. My
daughter was born in New York Hospital and her first view was of at the East
River. While my childhood friends
left the city for the suburbs to start their families I never...
Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 10:29
American Museum of Natural History | Astoria | Bronx Science | Brunch | Central Park | Chris Ware's Mother's Day New Yorker cover | City Families | George Lois | Kids in the City | MET | Moms | Moms and the City | Mother's Day | Museum of Natural History | NEST+M | New York Culture | New York Families | New York Mom | New York Moms | PS6 | Raising New York KIds | Sheep's Meadow | Sky Rink | Strollers | Stuyvesant High School | Sutton East Tennis | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | The New Yorker | Urban Kids | zum zum
On May 4, 2012 New York
lost a native son, the world lost Adam Yauch: Beastie Boy and advocate for
Tibet - a remarkable talent and amazing man devoted to the people and the
principles in which he believed. At just 47, the founding Beastie Boy also died
unacceptably young.
The New York of the
Beastie Boys in the early 80s was un-pasteurized. It still retained the rawness
and scrap that was required for its survival a decade prior. Adam...
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 09:01
A Clockwork Orange | Adam Yauch | Agnostic Front | Bad Brains | Beastie Boys | Brooklyn | CBGBs | Cro-Mags | Dechen Wangdu | Hardcore | Harley Flanagan | Hip Hop | Indie Music | Irving PLaza | License to Ill | MCA | Murphy's Law | New York Hardcore | NY Hardcore | NYC | Punk | Rap | reggae | ska | Street Music | The Ritz | Urban Sound | Warzone
Share our Strength’s Taste
of the Nation— the philanthropic culinary
extravaganza—brings together two of my favorite things: food and philanthropy.
The event is slated for
Monday, April 30 at 82 Mercer Place in Soho.
At the heart of it, Taste of the Nation brings together the top restaurants,
chefs, bakers, mixologists and food personalities in the city. This is all in
an effort to showcase the best food and drink, while...
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 11:12
82 Mercer Place | Aaron Sanchez | April Bloomfield | artisanal doughnuts | Bedford Stuyvesant | Big Flavor | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Dining | Centrico Restaurant | Charity | Chopped | Cilinary New York | Danny Meyermixology | Do or Dine | Dominique Ansel | Dominique Ansel Bakery | foie gras doughnuts | Food | Food Network | Foodies | Heat Seekers | Justin Warner | Kristen Oliveri | La Comida del Barrio | New York City | New York Dining | NYC Foodies | Philanthropy | Restaurant Daniel | Share our Strength | Simple Food | SoHo | Tacombi Taqueria | Taste of the Nation | The Spotted Pig
In 1963, when
Pop Art had begun its shattering ascent into U.S. culture, a young New York photographer named
William John Kennedy was in the right place at the right time, and had the smarts to know what he was witnessing and the talent to capture it.
Before They
Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy, presented by the KIWI Art's Group,
debuted in New York at site/109 on April 19th. New York Natives had the...
Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 11:29
Abstract Expressionism | Americans 1983 | Andy Warhol | Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy | Claes Oldenburg | George Segal | High Art | James Rosenquist Robert Rauschenberg | Jasper Johns | KIWI Arts Group | Museum of Modern Art | Pop Art | Pop Artists | Richard Hamilton | Robert Indiana | Roy Lichtenstein | site/109 | William John Kennedy
Perennially fascinated with New York’s fashion icons, celebrities and eclectic geniuses,
Bill Cunningham has become one of my favorites. A renowned individual who
has spent nearly every day of his life pedaling around Manhattan on his bicycle
photographing what people wear, he’s been described as “a layperson who has
dedicated his life to the tribe without becoming a part of it.”
Indicative of New
York’s diversity and allure,...
Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 08:22
American Photography | Anna Wintour | Bill Cunningham | Bill Cunningham New York | Carnegie Hall | documentary | fashion documentary | Fashion Photography | New York | New York Photography | New York Street Style | Photography | Richard Press | Street Fashion | Street Photography | Style on the Street | The New York Times | The New Yorker | Thoreau | Walden
In New York City, I
always associate Easter with Central Park's spring flowers. It's like mother
nature in the middle of this great metropolis screaming: I'm here. At every
step a walker is met with cherry blossoms and daffodils, forsythia
and snowdrops. Living on the Upper East Side, just as I leave our greatest
blooming garden, the Park Avenue tulips greet me with a punchy hello.
As a child my mother
would give us each...
Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 09:12
This is the
first story in a series about useful technology that enriches your life in NYC
with high style.
Über: The Real Jeeves
I recently
discovered I have a private driver, I’d just never met him. He’s always waiting
for me down the street. I can reach him any time and his name is Uber.
For real: As Uber shares, the company is revolutionizing urban transportation with mobile technology, algorithms, and
tons of...
Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 10:50
In -flight - San Antonio bound I sat musing over the possibility of writing this week's style post: Texas Style, A New Yorker's Take on Texas Style, Alamo Chic. As I thought, I flipped though the April edition of Bazaar at a leisurely southern pace. When lo and behold I came upon the vintage- inspired spread featuring a super sexy 1950s styled Miranda Kerr channeled her inner Monica Vitti. The shoot took place in 2012...
Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 09:59
1930s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 5 Boroughs | Alamo | April Bazaar | Bazaar | Chanel | Courrèges | Diane Von Furstenberg | Fashion | Harper's Bazaar | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Mad Men Style | Madonna | manhattan Style | Mary Quant | Minetta Tavern | Miranda Kerr | Missoni | Monica Vitti | NYC Nostalgia | RAOs | San Antonio | Schiaparelli | Staten Island Style | Strip Club | Style | Texas | The Standard | Trusardi | Vintage NYC
Back in the day
when Frankie said "RELAX," leggings were new and fresh and
bangles were all the rage. It was the time the world was introduced to NEON.
Neon had been around on signs and advertising but suddenly shop windows were
blaring with clothing in these new colors. My favorite store at that time was Fiorucci. The racks were full of acid green,
electric blue, shocking orange, much as the top floor of Barney's is today. But
how do...
Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 10:17
80s Fashion | Barney's | Beauty and Essex | Clare Vivier | Color | Cyndi Lauper | Everything Old is New Again | Fiorucci | flip flops | How to Wear Neon | Leggings | Lela Rose | Lela Rose 2012 | Lily Pulitzer | Madonna | NEON | Neon for Spring | neutral and neon | NYC Style | RELAX | Spring Fashion | Spring Style | Stella McCartney | Style on the Street | Urban Look | velvet rope
Every New Year begins with the
voracious feeding frenzy that is the spring runway looks; bubbling over in every
fashion magazine. I devour them in the way I have seen people pour over
gardening catalogues in the cold winter months; dreaming about soft pastels and
the first buds promising longer days and warmer nights.
Some friends call my style
"classic," some "conservative," but I, like most people
describing their own "look" like...
Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 11:11
NY Natives on Pinterest
"Flavor. We'll
take it! New York is THE city of many flavors mixed together to create some of
the tastiest conditions for creativity in the world. Nuyorican culture,
ingenuity and expression have been some of the strongest threads weavin
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