We move tomorrow from Newel St. in Greenpoint and one question is bothering me. The street signs and most of the folk-signage (labeled garbage cans and the like) on Newel St. spell Newel just like that, with one l. However, in many online databases and many maps it is spelled “Newell” with two […]
I think Jane Jacobs, and my planning friends who dig Jane Jacobs, will dig this map of the “regions of influence” of U.S. cities:
The size of a city doesn’t seem to correlate to the size of its influence region, though most of the large areas (which are mostly rural and in the west) seem to […]
New York, like Michigan, has a bottle recycling law. New York’s bottle deposit is 5¢, while Michigan’s is 10¢. I don’t know anyone in Michigan who doesn’t save her bottles and return them for the deposit. So far, in New York, I haven’t found anyone who does return the bottles. Many […]
The perpetual move goes on. This time, I’m moving all my web sites from my rented server to my new TextDrive hosting for life account. Having full control over a server is nice, but since I’m using mostly out-of-the-box software, and since I do enough systems administration as a day job, and since […]
ArborUpdate, an Ann Arbor area news blog I help operate recently posted an article on a clash provoked by white supremacists marching through a neighborhood in nearby Toledo. Google lead the racists to ArborUpdate, where they began to spew their hate in the comments thread. Rather than deleting comments and engaging in a […]
We finally landed a new pad, way up on the Upper West Side in Manhattan Valley. It’s further from the trains and not in quite as posh a neighborhood as the two apartments we missed out on, but it’s a short commute for Lizz, and close to Central Park. The neighborhood is […]
So we applied for a great apartment on the upper west side yesterday and just found out we didn’t get it — a stronger applicant beat us to it. Curses! Back to CraigsList. Growing weary…
Coming soon: How (Not?) to Find a Dog Friendly Apartment in New York City.
I never thought an apartment search could cause such intense emotional highs and lows. I found the perfect place in Brooklyn Heights — 2 blocks to the promenade, 4 blocks to a very nice dog run, and one block to the Clark St. 2/3 subway stop, a straight shot to Lizz’s work, convenient to […]
They finally posted my soon-to-be former job. It’ll also be posted at mplp.org by the end of the day. I’m still trying to figure out work here in New York, but I’m at least a month or two away from sheer panic, and still have many open doors. I’m more worried about […]
