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24 Hours in Alphabet City

9th Street Community Garden, Alphabet City I know, I know – I spend a week in each neighborhood that I live in.  But since I’ve spent so much time in Alphabet City I thought rather than a simple recap post, I’d do an NY Times style 36 hours piece – only in this case its [...]

Alphabet City, Manhattan

Stayed On 3rd, between B & C.  This address gets the award for the best backyard.  A huge space shared by the entire building but from what my hosts described to me, only really used by them.  There are flowers, patio furniture, and three or four grills.  You could daily have 100 people in the [...]

The NYC Nomad in Alphabet City (on 9th and c)

Stayed With Mike and Pete.  Mike is a co-worker at outside.in and shares my feeling of less is more with regard to stuff.  Pete is foreign currency trader by day and an 80’s pop star by night.  Check out his new album here and follow him on Twitter here, and read his blog here. Ate [...]