I met Sally through one of my favorite people who worked for us for almost twenty years. Sally is a true old-school NYer and photographer. This short doc is a worthy watch as she describes where we came from in the land of photography and where we are going. I am old enough to see […] The post Sally Davies appeared first on Gotham Gal ..read more

NYC is humming with new restaurants, stores, and theaters, including music shows and more. One of the many things I love about Paris is that the Metro has long tunnels filled with cultural advertising, compared to 1-800-lawyer. I wish we did that even inside the subways. The next mayoral election in NYC is in November 2025. We have a long way to go, and only a few have started to think about entering the race. I would expect to see many more. The other night, I walked down a street between Houston and Bleecker east of Broadway and west of Layfayette. Usually, those streets are charming, but t ..read more

My friend, Alicia Glen, wrote this piece for Vital City. She gets it, and so, although I rarely repost, here is her piece We Don’t Just Need More Apartments, We Need Larger Ones I grew up in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. It was wild and fabulous and challenging, and everything you might conjure up (both good and bad). In many ways, my block on the Upper West side was a microcosm of the city: “luxury” co-ops, rent-stabilized “prewar” apartment buildings, a City-owned “Old Law” tenement, one-family brownstones, a moderate-income Mitchell-Lama building and an NYCHA public hous ..read more

Last week, I had dinner at Misi, where we shared several small plates. This weekend, I was inspired to follow suit with a cantaloupe cucumber mint dish, mozzarella with chopped basil oil, beet goat cheese, dried cherry and arugula salad, corn, and a tomato tart. Making dough can be time-consuming and complex, depending on the weather and the altitude. This past week, there was a cherry tomato tart in the NY Times, and although I did not follow the ingredients, I made the crust. It is so easy and could be used for other dishes. When I made this tart, our daughter’s voice was in my he ..read more

Education is the foundation of life. Reagan and Nixon believed their power would diminish if top education became accessible to all. That was the beginning of more private schools and less money going towards public education. These policies are why we are where we are today. This has created a divide. Do I believe that all sides of Government are corrupt at some level?  Yes. But I know what I care about. When I look at today’s landscape, which began decades ago, I fear we are dumbing down society.  That scares the shit out of me. Ignorance is not bliss. Walter C ..read more

Hopefully, age is inevitable. I embrace my age, as with age comes experience and knowledge. However, it also comes with aches, pains, and memory lapses. I get so excited when I remember things that seem lost in the brain abyss. Perhaps my hard drive is too full. There are so many changes every day in the Presidential race of two older men, but the reality is that they are each older today than they were yesterday, and that will not change. We might be living longer lives, but internally, 40 is still 40, and 80 is still 80. As more people live to be 100, we should be thinking about the cost an ..read more

The Weldon Project is an organization dedicated to social change and financial aid for those serving time for cannabis offenses. They have been impactful at the Federal level, and we should all hope that they continue to be. This documentary, “Unlikely Allies,” is coming soon. Even if you see the trailer above, it doesn’t take much to realize that the laws have been so egregious, destroying countless lives for a plant that has finally been recognized for its benefits vs. being used to keep people in jail. Another dark chapter in America. The post The Weldon Project appeared first on Gotham Ga ..read more

The narrative that we must now discuss our feelings and be understanding of each other’s trauma is appearing on TV, in books, and the workplace. It is a new world, one of the many post-COVID changes.  The thing about trauma is everyone has different reactions to the same situation based on who they are at their core and the baggage they have been carrying to this point. Society “woke” up in the past few years, and much of it has been a positive step in the right direction, particularly “me too,” which was a watershed moment for women. This past week was an article in the New Yorker ..read more

Our political landscape is pathetic. Nobody, except serious MAGAs, is excited about the choices in the Presidential election. Politics has never been pretty, but these days, it is exceptionally ugly. We can thank the Supreme Court for allowing the rise of PACs, so once again, it is people with deep pockets controlling who stays in office. We all have to look for silver linings. We are seeing people use laws to fight against the Government. Over sixty percent of people in the US believe the Electoral College should be abolished, and I recently read about a group of people who are working their ..read more

A few years ago, I watched Jaime Dimon, the CEO of Chase, discuss the cycles of bull and bear markets. He discussed how much we have grown over the past decade and how he believed that we are in a new place where those cycles are changing. That we would continue to go up, up, up. Then Covid happened. In an instant, we were all in lockdown mode for way longer than anyone had envisioned. We had no choice but to navigate the new landscape. Humans are resilient. Parents with kids in school lost their minds. Zoom took off, businesses figured out how to function, and we all waited with bated breath ..read more