Historian Linda Gordon's new Dorothea Lange bio
My account of a New York Public Library Q&A with NYU history professor Linda Gordon, including her views on the prickly relationship between Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams
West Village Sushi Delivery Workers Strike
There's a growing, nationwide, effort by underpaid restaurant workers, many of them immigrants, seeking legal wages and fair treatment from their employers. The West Village is no exception. Here's a report on strikes at two different sushi restaurants.
Local and Independent: Three Lives & Co. Caters to Customers, Survives Big -box Onslaught
Three Lives & Company is the kind of bookshop every neighborhood should have. After writing a string of stories lamenting small retail closures in Greenwich Village, I wanted to clebrate a local favorite that has survived stiff competition.
Do Knife Sharpeners Make the Cut?
My evaluation of five different mail-in knife sharpening services
A Taste of Mother England: On Hudson Street, Bangers and Salad Cream
My profile of Myers of Keswick, the Englsh grocer around the corner from me, where Keith Richards sends his driver from Connecticut to pick up large quantities of bangers.