Pigeons bathing at an impromptu spa in Union Square. I wish I could care for all the creatures of the world, feed them, protect them from harm, while also somehow ridding us of the toddler monster-in-chief.
Some of the Books I Couldn’t Have Written my Book Without:
Accetta, Anthony. You, the Jury.
Bonastia, Christopher. Knocking on the Door.
Boyer, Brian D. Cities Destroyed for Cash.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit.
Thabit, Walter. How East New York Became a Ghetto.
The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) Belly rub!
NYPD squads and precincts share what are referred to as tribute coins. This is a tribute coin for the 75 precinct, featured in my book The Killing Fields of East New York. “Give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you a homicide.”
The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) I always show pictures of kittens and their stuffed animals. Here is a puppy! The challenge is to resist waking them up so you can love on them.
There was a significant law enforcement presence on my way to work yesterday.
Another great NYC perk! A free dress rehearsal of the Vienna Philharmonic playing Bartok and Mahler. I’m embarrassed to admit I’m not as familiar with Mahler as I should be. Bernstein’s great love!
A park full of people who look even vaguely like JFK, Jr would be worth a visit, I think. But please do Oscar Issac next. Thank you in advance.
The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) A sweet girl who was here to have surgery for a pyometra. We see this a lot. Spay your animals, please. (No shade on the owner, many people don’t know about this danger.)
Snowmen I passed on my way to choir practice last night. I almost didn’t include the last one, because I immediately flashed on a famous LA cold case. I saw the crime scene photos and I’m still traumatized!
More views of the West Village, post snowstorm. Was it a blizzard? I remember the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston, when I walked into Harvard Square (to Buddy’s Sirloin Pit!). I couldn’t see where I was going. It was hard to even tell when I was on a road. There was zero visibility, it felt like.
On 11th St. there’s a stretch of cherry trees where for a brief time during the spring the blossoms are so abundant and so lush they make a big, fat, fluffy white-and-pink canopy that stretches from sidewalk to sidewalk. We lost a few of those trees during Hurricane Sandy. We just lost another.
I grew up near the water, always collecting shells. But I never knew what to do with them. I didn’t enjoy them in bowls or jars or sitting on shelves. I finally realized I enjoyed them just as they were, in the sand, and stopped picking them up. (This is Leroy Street, West Village.)
Shoes I must possess at Anthropologie. I want the green ones at the top and the cranberry ones on the left. Yeah, and I’ll take those brown ones on the top right, too.
The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) Yesterday was pretty cat day, apparently.
The first thing I saw when I walked out into the street on Valentine’s Day. West Village, New York City.
Ilia Malinin, I’m sorry for your spectacularly bad day, but you are still great. Talk to Nathan Chen. Talk to Mikaela Shiffren. It happens to the best!! You’ll come back from this.
fresh audio product:
• Stacy Horn @stacyhorn.bsky.social on the damage mortgage fraud did to East New York
• David Backer @schooldaves.bsky.social on how we finance schools and how we could do better
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This is a sign that was up at St. Paul’s Chapel during the entire 9/11 recovery effort. I’ve never forgotten it, and to this day I think of Oklahoma fondly. Thank you, Oklahoma!
The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) Additional proof that kittens in the hospital need a stuffed animal for comfort.
My final virtual talk (for now) for my book The Killing Fields of East New York is tomorrow at 1pm!
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Last night I did a book event & was part of an evening that is a monthly thing that I will never miss again. You get comedy, NY history, an interview with someone knowledgeable. It was just so insanely fun & informative. GO. Trust me, it was that good. caveat.nyc/events/tom-d...
My event tonight will be livestreamed (for $10)! I know we’re supposed to have sub-zero temperatures tonight, so you can enjoy comedy and history from under a blanket!
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My next book event is tomorrow night, 7pm, at Tom D’s Big New York Show! There will be history, comedy, trivia and prizes!
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If you can’t make tonight’s virtual talk for my book The Killing Fields of East New York:
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You have options! Tomorrow night …
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If you can’t make tonight’s virtual talk for my book The Killing Fields of East New York, you have options! Tomorrow night ...
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Someone fed the pigeons on Hudson Street, West Village, NYC. Thank you, pigeon-feeder!
My next book event, Feb. 3, 6:30pm, it's virtual and free!
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Yeah, talking about silicon alley, it all got started in the 80s, really. I started Echo while I was in grad school at NYU's ITP (1986-1989) and this world had already begun.
I wasn't able to go, and yeah. I appreciated being included but so many people were not and I wasn't familiar with a lot of the names that were. I think there must have been a few parallel worlds going on then.
