New York Things to see and do Articles
Western New York – November 2000Western New York – November 2000
By Carolyn Kourofsky
Hollywood East (of Erie)
Attention, shoppers. Today’s bakery special is a movie camera with a side of sound boom. Quiet on the set.
If this supermarket were in LA, no one would even notice. But shoppers at Hegedorn’s, a [...]
Western New York – September 2000A Walk Through September
Come September, western New Yorkers remember why we live here and not somewhere else.
This can be hard to recall at other times of the year. February, for example. Or April 15. Or even July, on one of those days when 90-degree temperatures melt the mind and humidity turns memory to [...]
Western New York – August 2000Hop Off the Thruway and Stay a While
Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Canandaigua, Geneva, Niagara Falls – if you know them only as white letters on a green sign as you speed past at 65mph (watch those State troopers!), you need to get off I-90 and look around. There’s a lot more to New York than a [...]
So maybe you’re from London. Or Sydney. Or Chicago. Or one of a hundred other places in the world that is full of sky scrapers, museums, and lots of other people.
In which case, this page is not for you.
This page is dedicated to those who make their homes in the East Nowheres [...]
Hot Town! Summer in the CityNew York has a reputation for blistering summers. As the heat and humidity rise, they say, so do the tempers of New Yorkers. It must have something to do with all of those people stuffed into that tiny area, with nothing but concrete all around.
Well, I’m here to dispel the myths about New York [...]
New York City, New York – June 2000Every writer needs a muse. This month, mine was a fiberglass cow.
I admit it: I was about to let June slip by without an update for BootsnAll (as has been my habit in recent months). And then she beckoned me from her perch two stories above my Brooklyn park bench: a fragmented cow [...]
Bargains in Brooklyn – June 2000In Brooklyn, the people live in row houses. Most houses follow the same pattern: four stories in brownstone or brick, with the second floor (first floor to the rest of the world) being the parlor. Originally the ground floor was reserved for kitchens and maids’ quarters, so the parlor floor became the entrance to the [...]
Hot Town! Summer in the City! – New York City, New York, USAHot Town! Summer in the City
New York City – Summer 2002
New York has a reputation for blistering summers. As the heat and humidity rise, so do the tempers of New Yorkers. It must have something to do with all of those people stuffed into that tiny area, with nothing but concrete all around.
Well, [...]
New York City, USA – August 1999As I bring you this latest update, beads of condensation roll down the glass of icewater by my keyboard. Whirling blasts of hot air rush from my fan. A heavy heat haze hangs outside my window, and the people walking by on the street seem withered and fatigued.
Welcome to August in The City.
While [...]
Exciting. Busy. Loud. Fun. Crowded. You may think any of these things
when you think about New York City. But only for the rare individual (who
is unlikely to be reading this right now) does the word “cheap” spring to
mind in reference to this bustling metropolis.
Admittedly, NYC is [...]
