September 2009
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Run chicken run
One door down from our place there’s a live chicken shop - we live in a Puerto Rican neighbourhood where quite a few people have a preference for fresh chicken that they can see killed in front of them.
So on Tuesday and Friday mornings if the windows are open I hear the trucks unloading their cargos of protesting chucks and for 20 minutes I share their early morning fear and anxiety.
A...
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Time to get cozy
I love the summer as much as anyone else, it’s great to feel the sun on your skin, to drag the summer frocks out of their moth balls, and flaunt a little flesh. But somehow after a whole summer of it (or often for me 3 summers in a row) I am just over it and dying to don the layers.
That first breath of Autumn that is gusting across Brooklyn as we speak hints that it’s time to get...
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The English invasion of New York
So the Brits have arrived in New York, it turns out I am not the only one, seems like I hear more English accents here most days than I would in certain areas of London. A few weeks ago I was sat in a neighbourhood restaurant in South Williamsburg, a gorgeous, but discreetly tucked away little joint called Moto, located in a wedge shaped building tucked away under the JMZ lines on Broadway. Sat on...
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Across state lines....
I finally feel like we have actually moved to New York. Yes we’ve been here for 6 weeks already, but staying first with friends and then living in our strangely empty apartment didn’t feel very permanent. This weekend however we finally made the trip down south to pick up Andrew’s furniture (and my sewing machine yeah!!)
Let me tell you it was quite a trek, 18 hours over night...