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, […]

CLICK HERE TO GO TO MY NEW BLOG JUST ABOUT VANITY PLATES!  I can’t walk by one with out taking a picture so I figured I might as well do something with all of them - not just from The U.E.S.

A few months ago I was walking down Park Avenue with Jay Israelson and he […]

by Julian Tepper
A spring evening in New York and here, once again, piled into Alexander Ames’s bed were Clyde Foreman, Paul Loopy, Phil Owen, Eve Hecht, Emma Beckman—as well as Alexander himself—together now like on most days where they occupied the lunch-table, a corner of the classroom or the steps outside their high school. Emma […]

Finally caught the raccoon who I had heard hangs out in our back alley in action.  Around 4am on 10/2/07.

W. John Jameson, III, lives in my building and weaves textiles in his apartment. During the winter he opens his home studio to friends and other tenants for a holiday sale. A few years ago my mother began a yearly tradition of letting me pick out a scarf for Hanukah. When […]