My kids are short, and their height / visibility to a car is pretty much the only thing keeping me from turning them loose on the city.

The can handle everything else.

They have free rein on car-free governors island.

Forty years later the big interior decorating signal for villainy in Hollywood movies is still an appreciation for modern art.

Periodically available at downtown bars and restaurants in nyc - and I gotta say actually pretty good if you like savory / umami things.

Dr. Clark on bayard st. Has a lamb broth variation. Better than it sounds!

It’s been a while since I read the essay but as I recall, Benjamin thought the aura (which I think is on some level connected to the authentic) of a piece of art was inseparable from its “realness”

Is looking at a photo of a painting the same as looking at a painting?

Walter Benjamin sure didn't think so:
web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...

What the fuck is this guy wearing?
Is he going to the playboy mansion after this segment?

JFC the warnings and anecdotes you get about this place growing up in New England.

Clamato.

Also - weirdly, the Simpsons has done a better job explaining America, religion and cops to my NYC babies than I ever could.

My kids just speed ran all 35 or whatever seasons. They vastly prefer more recent episodes and look forward to the next season.

So maybe it’s us that need to be retired.

“Tread on me daddy”

These MFs crave the authoritarian boot.

Check out a Jiujitsu studio - you'd be amazed at the initimacy / culture of care (in the right gym)

I'm in a fourth floor walk up, and the apartment isn't that big. The thing I love about citibike is not having to store a bike.

Docking a bike and walking away without a care in the world feels amazing.

The gifted and talented track is 100% a sneaky way to resegregate classrooms, particularly in gentrifying areas.

As a (white)parent with kids in public school in NYC Nice White Parents was a hard listen www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/p...

4. What is a “flex” that doesn’t impress you?

This is a lot of intensity for grabbing restaurant workers.