It’s not your typical day when you look out the window and see an igloo. ‘Actually it’s not an igloo,’ its creator, Joe Gindoff, told me. ‘It’s a snow house. Igloos are made of ice.’ Joe, my neighbor in Jackson Heights, Queens, told me he’s never built one before, but the excess snow and time to wonder — he recently lost his job … Continue reading
Bob Diamond is a classic New Yorker. Snubbing naysayers to discover, at age 19, the world’s oldest subway tunnel, under Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue in 1980. Two years later Bob started leading tour down there — raw tours, often peppered with fiery jabs at city officials. (I enjoyed one in July.) Last month the city closed them down, alas. Hopefully they’ll come back. Here’s … Continue reading
Work is no excuse for missing a key World Cup game, like the opening game in the first-ever World Cup in Africa. I split the game in two locales: spending the first half in Brooklyn’s South African restaurant Madiba in Fort Greene — a raucous, butt-bumping, shoulder-scraping SRO scene — then the second Sunnyside, Queens’ inviting Haab Mexican Cafe, where things were already … Continue reading
Episode #027F E A T U R I N G * 3 3 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S One of the more fascinating recent New York stories was the discovery in 1991 of the African Burial Ground, a 6.6-acre site between the World Trade Center Site, Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian ramp and Chinatown in Lower … Continue reading
ROBERT REID is a travel writer (Lonely Planet, New York Times), travel expert (Today Show, CNN, GoogleTalks), travel videographer (his 76-Second Travel Show) and "travel artist" (staging the Manhattan Bridge's 100th birthday, training with Mounties). Read more...
