On Transmigration

Old Friends: For a small corps of us weekend meant busting out and heading for a museum, the Cloisters, Central Park concerts, or just roam...

Westside Highway El and Hudson River - 1979-80 (Click any image to embiggen.) This decorative art deco designed wall was actually t...

Cycling - 1976  Westside Highway closed from the Battery to 57th Street.   Biking paradise. Weather permitting, I rode my bike to ...

The image I posted yesterday is sooo 2013.  This is the tribute to Pride 2014 via  Empire State Pride in all it's glory. If you cel...

To New York City and the World. More later. *

A while back I posted a piece about reading “Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America” .  In that post I r...

Turns out those Friday afternoon storms that caused the blackout/power outage lasted for about 3 hours tying up traffic, causing bad driv...

I'd like to say a few words here, if you don't mind.  FUCK YOU, RUDOLPH GIULIANI (Mayor of 9/11),  FUCK YOU CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN (...

The year is 1978, the dance palaces in NYC are 12-West, Flamingo, Truck Stop, and Chameleon and this was on the playlist of almost every DJ....

A sad reality as the big movie palaces come down and the sterile, boring multiplex takes center stage. There is nothing to compare with the ...

Whatever the weather, every March the RB Annual Chocolate Festival is a huge draw and this year was like no other. Although the doors opened...

A controversial, (some hate it while others love it) though iconic painting is the star of the new gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Some readers know that I am fascinated by, and love stories like this.  Part history, part mystery, part deceit, and all American. This is t...

It's ironic that Hurricane Irene slashes her way up the east coast of the US on the same weekend Katrina did the same to the Gulf Coast ...

Quite a lot to think about here. From the University of Arizona: A 1-meter increase in sea level doesn't sound like much. But the 3.3-...

One of the seven million residents of Gotham decided to tart up Palin's bus by adding a sign above the over-sized image of Preamble to t...

While I loved  Raul Esparza's Bobby  in the 2008 Broadway revival of Company, in a very unique production, I was a bit put off by the ch...

Just passing on this important message from the Executive Director of the Ali Forney Center. A guest post at JMG :  It has been a rough ho...

I was on a commuter bus from Lake Hopatcong, NJ to my job in NYC at 4:15 a.m. when a muffled cry from another passenger broke the sleepy sil...

I remember seeing this once back in the 70s when there were constant problems or fires on subways causing re-routing of trains quickly.  No ...