This coming weekend two free punk rock shows will be held in Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s East Village. The shows commemorate the Tompkins Square Park riot of 1988, when police clashed with squatters, homeless and others that had been camping out in the park. Accounts of that night very but few dispute… Read more »
Ask A New Yorker interviewed Joep de Koning, Chairman and President of The Tolerance Park Foundation, on the history of New York. He discussed the history of Dutch colonial life in New York. Ask a New Yorker: What’s the biggest myth about New York’s history? Joep: That is a real estate myth. The story about… Read more »
The Queens Museum is a site of pilgrimage for punk rock fans from all over the area thanks to its Ramones exhibit, which is open until July 31. I made it there not long ago one weekend after seeing friends posting photos of their visits there over social media for the last several months. It… Read more »
Janice McDonald: With 8 Emmy nominations, she was dubbed the Susan Lucci of CNN. Janice has taken her career global – writing books and producing TV, using all seven continents as her stepping stones. People ask me what my favorite city to visit is and my immediate answer is always Bruges, Belgium. From the first time I… Read more »
