Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

Sure, you knew about the famed Fox and Paramount theaters downtown, where lots of early rock and pop acts performed. Even 9th Street's P...

Not to presume that this blog has been missed, but if it was, the reason has been that our family has been involved in Heavy Readiness Mode ...

Brooklyn-raised, Chicago-born chess icon Bobby Fischer, who became a Cold War symbol when he defeated Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as wo...

Every day, or at least every day that I have taken my younger kids to school or gone downtown to my office, I pass a building near the corne...

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) remains one of the most prolific authors of the twentieth century. Dr. Asimov is widely know...

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...