The NYC Nomad

“Become Your Dream” I’ve seen these “become your dream” posters all over the Upper East Side, and even written in black marker on discarded mattresses.  James De La Vega is the artist responsible. via April Zosia on Flickr

Stayed With Amy and Gregg, newlyweds, and friends of mine from Tufts.  We’ve been talking about this since September and it finally happened on the first week of the New Year.  I was coming back from a week with my parents and its always nice to stay with friends that I know well when I [...]

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and [...]

I’ve had some pretty unique offers since getting some press in the New York Times and being interviewed on Leonard Lopate.  Below is one of the more unique offers for a week I’m planning to spend in April in an old squat building in the East Village. Lisa agreed to let me repost her email [...]

Well its not New York, but my parents have “hosted” me for a lot longer than one week so I thought they deserved a post. I stayed in the home I grew up in, in my old bed, which I used to complain about when I came home.  This trip it felt like the best [...]

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I had plans to stay in East Williamburg the week before Christmas. Then I received the message below from a friend of the roommate of my friend and former host Liz (yes, you should read that again) in Crown Heights, who I met one night during my stay there and had offered his place for [...]

Show time! (Taken with Instagram at WNYC Radio)

Please tune in to WNYC (NPR) this Tuesday, January 4th for the Leonard Lopate show. The stations in NYC are FM 93.9 and AM 820.  You can also stream it live from the WNYC website. I’ll be going on starting at 1pm EST for about a 20 minute interview and preceding none other than Roseanne [...]

It was a half mile walk to my new home.  The last time I had a move like this was from 34th street to 35th street on the third week of my project.  It’s amazing to think about how long ago that feels to me. Stayed With Bryan, who I knew a little bit from my time [...]