I was sitting at an outdoor restaurant in the west village (7th and Bleeker) earlier this evening having dinner with my mom when the woman at the table next to ours said this to her dinner companion. My mom looked at me and said in disgust in Bengali, “Do people get any stupider than her?”. [...]

To be quite honest, this has been driving me nuts since my first encounter with the street on my first visit to New York. I couldn’t fathom why an entire city of people would pronounce Houston (”hyuston”) as “howstin”.
My First guess was that this pronunciation debauchery was a result of the extremities of the “New [...]

So I finally saw my first celeb yesterday. It seems that everyone else here has at least seen someone and most people have seen multiple someones. Even visitors will occasionally run into a celeb. Me on the other end… nada. I saw that guy Daniel Vosovic from Project Runway at a bus stop once; but [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I tend to put empty beverage containers back in the fridge before disposal. Last night, I followed my bi-monthly (or so) ritual of bagging all the empty bottles for recycling. Since I’m not fond of venturing down to the trash area at night (that’s when the mice come out) I decided [...]

One can’t help but wonder certain things…
1. Who are these taxi cab drivers on the phone with all the time? I’d say conservatively 70% of the taxi cab rides I take the drivers are on the phone for the whole ride. Now I’m not exactly a ‘phone person’, I’m lucky if I spend an hour [...]

I guess New York might be a little dirty after all…
Check out this picture of people power-washing a building.
http://www.trevorlittle.com/2007/01/03/power-washing-188-suffolk-st/