Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

What an amazing contest this is shaping up to be. Hlilary Rodham Clinton pulled the primary victory in New Hampshire from the jaws of defeat...

Ron Paul as Libertarian as Bigot ? The New Republic has it: http://www.tnr.com What's the News Across the Nation ? The Drudge Report : ...

From his early 20s, Devlin had a complicated view of Christmas. In his first apartment on PPW (aka, “the Parkside”), $175 a month for a one...

Wasn't it just Y2K ? Tempis fugit in Brooklyn. Here we are in the future of our own making.

I have been on vacation (i.e., out of the office) this week along with my family. Besides the Herculean task of cleaning out my 3rd floor c...

The holiday season is rambling along. All of that marvelous good feeling and holiday potential that seems to come to an abrupt halt and then...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All.

I usually don't get into the Brooklyn real estate blog thang. Of course, stories that impact the collective roof over our heads, or the ...

Based on NY Times columnist David Brooks' track record, and a recent follow up post by Peter Loffredo ( http://www.fullpermissionliving....

Somethings are just wrong. The "N" word, when used by anyone, but especially by non-African Americans. An Italian-American politi...

I have never experienced December in Las Vegas. But let's perform a mind experiment and picture Frank, Dean and Sammy in the big room at...

Well, it has been three days and he is gone. I am convinced the Wandering Stranger of Schermerhorn Street has moved on. Incredibly, since e...

Earlier this week, quite out of the blue, I received an email regarding a post on DITHOB that I had written earlier this month . The post, a...

I don't get Family Guy. South Park is obscenely funny but just not smart. The Simpsons remains a classic comedy but still, to my tastes,...

Read it and weep. Famed Tammany Hall Philosopher and Politican George Washington Plunkitt told all in his book "Plunkitt of Tammany Hal...