After a beautiful afternoon at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, there’s nothing more relaxing than a quiet evening in with a glass of wine and some soft, furry company. Highlights of the day included a luscious ice cream sandwich from The Good Batch, smoky salty goodness from Porchetta, and a Vendy-Cup-winning huarache from the [...]
August 20, 2010
This past Wednesday night, Matt and I drove south through Brooklyn and over the Verrazano to Staten Island. We were there to see Peter Puleo’s cousin’s death metal band, The Aurora Fortress. We saw them play at The Cup, which was definitely an interesting scene. If any of you are fans of that style of [...]
August 18, 2010
While I play around and experiment with cross-processing, you should head to little spot on Union Street just west of Nostrand (map) in Crown Heights called Super Wings, which recently won the “Best Wings in Brooklyn 2010″ crown this year. Of course, I may be a tiny bit biased since it’s just up the block [...]
August 7, 2010
For the last couple of years that I’ve been reading 66 Square Feet religiously, it’s at this point in the summer that I get blindly jealous. Desperate with envy. Why? you ask. It’s her terrace fig tree. Now, I know I could grow one myself. And I fully intend to start next summer. But I [...]
August 3, 2010
Every Tuesday and Thursday mornings, I pass the greenmarket which occupies a lovely stretch of the plaza in front of Borough Hall and the courthouse. Open three days a week, this farmer’s market is, in my humble opinion, one of the best in the city. Plus — this year the market celebrated its 26th birthday! [...]
July 26, 2010
Last Thursday, the folks over at Serious Eats shared the results of their arduous review of NYC bakeries. Their mission: Find NYC’s best cupcake. The outcome? Brooklyn’s own Baked NYC won in a “seriously close call,” after beating out more than 47 bakeries and 60 flavor combinations! To the uninitiated, Baked NYC seems like a [...]
July 2, 2010
Earlier this week, I posted a shot of my ever-expanding fire escape garden, which is in full swing as we storm into July. I got several sweet comments and a few questions about how to sustain a small urban garden, and I’m happy to say that it’s not too hard — at least in my [...]
June 13, 2010
If you don’t make it to the greenmarket this week, it’s okay. Just means more for me.
April 16, 2010
If there’s one thing I hope we can all agree on, it’s this: NYC is obsessed with pizza. There’s the hilarious Slice Harvester, whose lofty mission it is to review all the slice joints in NYC. There’s I Dream of Pizza, who has embarked on a 30-day diet of all-pizza-all-the-time. There’s an entire blog at [...]
March 9, 2010
Too often, as a photographer, I feel driven to capture the news-breaking, the attention-grabbing, and the extreme as I journey through the borough. This impulse sometimes allows me to forget the beauty in the mundane, to ignore the simplicity and loveliness of everyday life. One recent weekend, though, I made it a point to remember [...]
August 21, 2010