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A Walk in NoLita, Sometimes Speaking French
To get to the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery from where I live in the Village I walk through the precious neighborhood of NoLita. I say "precious," because this neighborhood North of Lit...
Diversion: Hot Chocolate with Melting Peeps, and Easter Treats in the Big City
Everyone I've talked to agrees that Easter is too early this year. Not that we can help it. St. Patrick's Day and Easter in the same week is wrong. The presence of two parades of that magnitude in New...
Tribeca Living: A Building for Chocolate and One for the Wool Trade
The Powell Building (1892) at 105 Hudson Street (at Franklin St.), shown on the left, was designed by Carrere & Hastings, the architects of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Str...
Walking Off Tribeca and Remembering Mostly Lunch
When I returned from my long walk and lunch in Tribeca today, I felt over-stimulated but more tired than usual. Traveling can be both stimulating and exhausting at the same time. Beyond the physical d...
University Place: Pedestrian, Yes, But in a Good Way (A Photo Essay)
University Place, a relatively short street in lower Manhattan, links Washington Square Park to the south with Union Square to the north. A thoroughfare frequented by NYU students, neighborhood reside...
Monday Roundup: Chelsea Planning Tip, Whitney Biennial, Green Peppercorn Sauce, and Other Items
Visiting Chelsea. Maybe the following quick Descent Into Art Hell in Chelsea has happened to others: I hate when I'm in Chelsea and I've just realized I wanted to visit a particular gallery but it's f...
We're Not All Like Dubya: A NY Map for Texas Independence Day
Not all Texans are like the former governor of Texas who currently serves as President of the United States (324 days left, and counting). I have to explain this difference when I meet some New Yorker...
Roundup: The Plaza Hotel, Sondheim's Seurat, the Texas Primary, and the Upcoming Gelato Showdown in the Village
As I gather my thoughts about the Chichester Festival Theatre's entertaining production of Macbeth that I saw last night at BAM, I would like to pass on a few updates and news items:• I've now assem...
Wee Willy WOTBA's Downtown Chocolate Walk
Yesterday was the colonel's birthday, so he asked me to go over to Bruno Bakery and buy a couple of cakes for an impromptu celebration. It's a hard job, but someone's got to pick out the chocolate cak...
Lost in the West Village? So Eat
View Larger MapLast week I walked down E. 4th Street and noticed that the color red dominated the visual landscape. Walking on W. 4th the palette veers to the blues, greens, and teals. The cool colors...
The Foodie Blocks of Bleeker Street, and a Map
I feel like such an enabler. Some people come to this website seeking help on walking to lose weight, and I stick up pictures of food in their face. I should explain.Bleeker Street, just a few steps o...
Walking Off the Big Apple's Lenten Gelato Diet
While walking on Bleeker Street yesterday and looking at all the food in the windows of the street's foodie blocks, and stopping for awhile to watch the firemen put out a fire above Indian Taj (all of...
NY Party Time for Super Tuesday, the NY Giants Parade and Mardi Gras
Call it a Trifecta, but the convergence of the multi-state primary day, including New York, this morning's downtown ticker-tape parade for the Super Bowl Champs, and Fat Tuesday make for a mighty Part...
Weekend Frivolities: Cupcakes, Buildings, Obama, Comments Now Open
• After finishing that last self-guided walk, Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos, I felt like I had walked from Fifth Avenue to Santa Fe and back. That was a big walk! I'm still putting together...
Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Dining New York by Southwest
See the related posts for Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keeffe, and New York City.I'm a Fritos-type person, and in my experience it's always the skinny vegetarian pers...
Dining Near Washington Square Park
View Larger MapVisitors to Greenwich Village may enjoy some of these food options around Washington Square Park. The list of places is particularly suited for visiting NYU. In 2008 the park underwent ...
The Hot Tamales of Avenue A
Having grown up in Texas, I am accustomed to the tradition of Mexican tamales at Christmas time. So I decided to walk out the front door of my building in Nueva York and search for some. Labor-intens...
Weekend Frivolities Holiday Baking Special: Freestyle Gingerbread
The image says it all. Rolling out dough for gingerbread cookies, I realized that the slab was nothing more than raw material for sculpture or a blank canvas on which I could apply paint. I looked at ...
How Not to Blow Your Diet During the Holidays, Illustrated
At this time of year I read many articles about unnecessary holiday eating and drinking, the kind that adds pounds that never come off. I can easily visualize the quantitative portions of various holi...
Dining in the District: Support Restaurants During the Strike
Now that the talks between the Broadway stagehands and producers have broken down again (NYT), it's important to consider the consequences of the strike beyond the dark theaters. The restaurants in th...
Prego y Gracias: Tosc-Mex Dining in Alphabet City
This past week I met friends for a festive birthday party at Matilda, the new Tosc-Mex place on E. 11th near Ave. C. This particular fusion is not a gimmicky trend but just the happy marriage of two c...
Weekend Frivolities: The Cupcake Winner
SUGAR SWEET SUNSHINE PUMPKIN CUPCAKEIf you were walking by the corner of Rivington and Norfolk yesterday at about 4 p.m. and saw a woman standing on the corner and eating a pumpkin cupcake, that would...
5 Miles, 4 Cupcakes, and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
The four finalists of the cupcake search: clockwise, from top left:Dean & Deluca Flower Vanilla Cupcake (Prince & Broadway): $5.50Whole Foods Market R.I.P. Chocolate Cupcake (E. Houston & ...
Weekend Frivolities: The Ho' Made Cupcake Melting in the Rain Edition
CHORUSMacArthur's Park is melting in the darkAll the sweet, green icing flowing down...Someone left the cake out in the rainI don't think that I can take it'cause it took so long to bake itAnd I'll ne...
Dextrose Food Energy
What the New York Yankees should have put on their pancakes during the loss to Cleveland Monday night. Now out of the post-season, the 2007 Yankees have broken many hearts.Walking Off the Big Apple is...
Frozen Refreshments for a Planet in Danger
I have just returned from my stroll today, but with some failures to report. I wanted to visit two or three venues in the annual Open House New York event, but the lines were too long for WOTBA. At th...
Let's Go Eat
The colonel and I have enjoyed several food establishments of late, so I want to pass on some recommendations.La Esquina106 KenmareAs far as we could make out, the Mexican restaurant La Esquina featur...
E. 1st Street and Red Velvet Cupcakes (on E. 4th)
BB Sandwich Bar on W. 3rd. St.
Style and Sustenance in NYC on $25 a Day
