If you don’t like reading too much, here’s the short version: I met Chevy Chase last night and he said the cow incident happened at Haverford College
To make a short story long, last night I went to the after-party for the premier of the new Robert De Niro/Al Pacino movie, “A Righteous Kill” at Terminal […]

NOTE: This story has been updated - see here.
As a Dalton highschooler I heard the Chevy Chase story numerous times- from my older brother and other upperclassmen and alumni. It seems to be one of the favored Dalton factoids in party conversation along with the school’s reference in the Woody Allen film “Manhattan.

The story: Chevy […]

A Very U.E.S. Night
(for me was Tuesday, August 5, 2008)

I broke my third power cord for my apple laptop. I managed to post a note on facebook asking if anyone had an extra before draining the reserve battery power playing boggle on facebook (known as Scramble.) Frustrated, I cut in half two old power […]

I have added my small collection of vintage postcards of The Upper East Side to the “Pictures of the Upper East Side” section. Click on the “Postcards” link in the sidebar to see the fronts and backs of more postcards.

We first posted this photo on April 11, 2008- the day after a stroll with my friend Samara where she pointed out this missing “U” in the signage on Gucci’s store at Madison and 69th Street.

I passed it about a week ago and it was still missing. I walked by last night intending to […]

It used to kind of be a big deal when you spotted a raccoon in Manhattan and someone would call Animal Control or the police.  Now  we’ve gotten used to them and  one raccoon regularly visits  our building’s back alley.  Some people in our building  believe  a raccoon is responsible for the plant that keeps […]

Nervous GI from the UES to LES
The wave begins below the UES
The UES has returned to resting pressure, only now can it relax
Vagus relaxes the LES,
Intrinsic properties of smooth muscle and the influence of VIP
Nitrous oxide’s calming effects
Selective VIP loss of the LES
Treatment is LES targeted
Exit the LES
that is it: GI = Gastrointestinal, UES = […]

by Theodore Barrow
Your response to my point has set the tone of the dialogue between the two of us: breezy and sugar-coated yet mordant and vicious. Not unlike a molasses-covered glob of feces shat from the fiery sphincter of Cerberus, the three-headed hound of the Upper East Side. You are a worthy adversary, despite your […]

It has been an exercise in restraint and modesty, leaving this blasphemy unchecked for so long. But my faith in your faith is strong and the truth will out. Mr. Barrow has made a valiant and creative effort in claiming The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park for the West Side, […]

by Theodore Barrow
I’ve been all over New York City, which is to say strictly Manhattan, from Battery to Fort Tyron, Clinton to Norfolk, Gay Street to Jay street, and it all pales in comparison to the glorious Upper West Side. Yes, that grid of fantastic beauty that exquisitely stretches from 59th street up to Columbia, […]