Lost City
28 July 2006

Lost City: New Orleans Edition: Gaiety at Galatoire's

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Do people have fun in restaurants? I know, they seem to have fun, they say they have fun, they go with the aim to have fun. But is it really...

Come Back When You Can't Stay So Long

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Not only has the quality of life in New York gone steadily down in recent years; so has the quality of tourists. Used to be, folks you knew ...
27 July 2006

Lost City: New Orleans Edition: Sazerac, Mon Amour

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Within minutes of checking in at the Hotel Monteleone on Rue Royale in the French Quarter, I made it my mission to visit the lodge's Car...

Neglect, Mine and Con Ed's

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I have been neglecting the Web Site during the last couple weeks, but I have a couple good excuses. One: I work in one of the areas recently...
14 July 2006

McClellan the Great

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I was trolling about Battery Park looking for the water taxi that goes to Red Hook when I noticed the city had slapped on a handsome new pai...
11 July 2006

Lonely Town

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I often have occasion to pace the streets of this town while running errands or killing time between work and evening engagements. Lately, a...
10 July 2006

Sand, Surf, Strikes

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I attended my first Brooklyn Cyclones game last night, and though the team is of only a few seasons' standing, the experience had the fe...
28 June 2006

Barbarian at the Dive Bar Gate

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The other night, I was holding up a section of the bar at Jimmy's Corner, the last great dive in Times Square, drinking a Sam Adams, lis...

I Walk Along the Street of Sorrows

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I was wending down 57th Street, the sometimes glorious, sometimes unlovely crosstown artery, when I noticed that developers had had their wa...
27 June 2006

Time in a Bottle

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So I was given a tour of the fabled wine cellar at the more fabled "21" Club last week. (Don't ask why.) What a wonder of a pl...
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Brooks of Sheffield
New York City, New York
I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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