New York Things to see and do Travel Articles

Western New York – November 2000

Western 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 small grocery store in the town of [...]

Western New York – September 2000

A 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 2000

Hop 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 [...]

New York Guide – H.S!I.I.N.Y Moments

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 of [...]

Hot Town! Summer in the City

New 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 2000

Every 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 clinging [...]

Bargains in Brooklyn – June 2000

In 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, USA

Hot 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. [...]

New York City, USA – August 1999

As 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 [...]

New York City, USA – July 1999

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 no mecca for budget travel. [...]