Polite New Yorker

  The Powerball lottery game recently reached a jackpot close to $2 billion. Those jackpots spur people who don’t normally buy lotto tickets...

  For New Yorkers who were out of town on September 11, 2001, the horrors of that day were accompanied by a feeling of horrific impotence. I...

Children who call their parents "cringe" today will thank them later. My daughters often seek to remind me that I am “cringe.” I m...

  The delirium of social media delivered an appealing idea: instead of building a ginger bread house for the holidays, you can create a smal...

  I remember standing in the Atlanta airport the day after Election Day in 2004, watching John Kerry and John Edwards give concession speech...

  The U.S. Open has recently concluded here in New York. It is one of the tennis world’s grand slam tournaments and makes dreams come true ...

In the early 2000s, I picked up a copy of the punk rock newspaper The New York Waste , and paged through the show listings, record reviews a...

  I have been hunting for about a dozen years and have three deer to show for it, but I don’t regret a minute of hunting. As my friend Steve...

Amid the implosion of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges (I am far from the only one but I told you so ) and the mid-term e...

  The lure of being lucky and striking it rich is a powerful opiate in America. From our very foundation as a place of refuge for the unluck...

  We entered 2022 in a state of sickness but also with a determination to reenter life with meaning and determination. I sat on a couch wi...

  New York is aglow in holiday glory . Within walking distance of my home are houses and apartment buildings adorned in beautiful lights and...

  This Halloween season finds New York City in a state of awkward transition to whatever post-pandemic world will eventually be shaped by th...

  Early in May, I returned to a company office to work for the first time since March 2020. The company I worked for at the time is headquar...

  We’re approaching the end of the biggest global pandemic in more than a century, and New York is ready to dive into Spring and Summer with...

A mile and a half from where I live, at the same intersection where I’ve used the ATM countless times and taken my children for numerous fas...

  More than 30 years ago now, I was selected as my high school’s intern for our local Congressman. I spent a week working from the Capitol H...