Category Archives: A Walker in the City: Flaneur Pieces

Stepping out of Yonah Shimmel’s Knish Factory the other day, down on Houston and Forsyth, a giant belch escaped my gorgle, in studied satisfaction with my late-day pit stop. Yonah’s is the only restaurant that I frequent with a working dumbwaiter. Its greasy tables and unwashed floor only add to the taste of the diet-busting […]

For a decade and a half I suffered from nerve twinges and occasional numbness in my right arm and shoulder. Nothing seemed to help. One sorry attempt at homeopathy years ago brought only yellow pee from ingesting great gobs of Vitamin B-something. But having just turned 55, and sensing more than ever my body falling […]

The attendants at the garage where I park my van are always gracious when I show up with that expectant look on my face. It’s not because I love my car. Prostate cancer treatment has perhaps forever altered my bladder management, so before I head out, I routinely ask to use the little concrete-block enclosure […]

The maelstrom of 9/11 brought many gifts to our city, among them the reinstitution of long-gone ferry service between Manhattan and Brooklyn. A modest-sized high-speed twin hull from the New York Water Taxi fleet now plies Upper New York Harbor between the Wall Street pier and Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge waterfront during rush hours on weekdays. […]