New York City
A Brooklyn Evening
Saturday, June 21st, 2008It’s been a tough month, but I’m taking a weekend to myself, where I’m not doing anything work-related. It feels good.
M. and I went down to the new Ikea that opened up in Brooklyn last week. I was against this Ikea being built, because of the traffic it will generate in my quiet […]
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Living Frugally in New York City
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Living a frugal life….is it even possible in New York City?
When I first moved here 20 years ago, Manhattan was filled with money and ambitious people, and the rest of us would escape to Brooklyn. Now, my formerly funky Brooklyn neighborhood has become a bedroom community of $3 million brownstones and self-satisfied trust-fund kids. […]
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Changing Times in NYC
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007I work in Investment Research, and the last few months have not been optimistic ones for our research analysts. In fact, the tone lately has been downright apocalyptic. It hasn’t helped my own optimism to see what has happened to my 401k over the past few weeks. I’m down more than 20%. […]
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Fall in NY
Saturday, November 17th, 2007It’s a beautiful Fall day here in Brooklyn; I’m looking out at my back yard and the trees & bushes are at the peak of their color. It always surprises me how much later Fall arrives in NYC than it does just 30 miles inland; we don’t usually get our first frost until Thanksgiving. […]
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