The NYC Nomad

I’ve thought a lot about taking this project beyond the five boroughs.  I have six neighborhoods left in New York City to reach my goal of 52, which was originally a goal of a summer, which turned into a goal of a calendar year, which turned into a goal of 52 neighborhoods – a NYC [...]

Graphic Credit:  Juli Sombat from Red Hook It’s been quite a year since I packed up, hit the road, and decided to become an urban nomad.  I’ve lived in over 35 neighborhoods in and around NYC and recently hit my fifth borough (Staten Island, at last!). I’m celebrating by having a get together at Idle Hands Bar (which has over 50 beers [...]

Planning wasn’t exactly my strong point over the past few weeks.  I went from 83rd and 1st to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and then back to 89th and 1st.  Alas, moving can be interesting, if not exactly fun, and it was an interesting to contrast the two neighborhoods.  Contrast is what I’ll do below – if you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]