On Sunday we celebrated Bastille Day with a quick walk to Smith Street where gigantic swaths of the street had been turned into sandy pétanque courts. Pétanque, for those of you who might be…
Just a few photographs of what morning walks have been looking like lately.…
It’s going to be hard to think of reasons why we shouldn’t pack up the kitchen and head down to the park every single night this summer. Last night: grilled asparagus and mushrooms, homemade…
There’s lots to be said for the beauty of muted colors. I like them too; all those soft neutrals, the grays and whites and blues. But there’s something about springtime tulips and the way…
I’ve been poring over these family photos lately. There’s lots to say about them, but for now I couldn’t help but to share them as a little celebration of Brooklyn in the summertime. I…
In the winter months it’s easy to forget that there are whole lives lived in the interiors of the city blocks, but when the spring comes and the trees bloom, I suddenly remember. The…
Last week, the newly built Squibb Park Bridge, connecting the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with the fantastic Brooklyn Bridge Park, opened to pedestrian traffic. As a near-daily park walker, I am thrilled with this newest development.…
For the past month or so I’ve been working on a freelance history project with the Brooklyn Historical Society and a public school in the city. Together with a group of ten 4th and…
In the mid-1990s, in my small town in coastal Connecticut, there was still a small general store. It had a post office inside and the requisite bins of wrapped candy. My sisters and I…
Fall comes quietly to the city. You have to be a keen observer of things to catch its beginnings. In the country the season makes a more obvious splash. Here, the tops of trees…