A year ago August, Beth and I bought a condo — a “pied-a-terre” — in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood known by the Disney-esque acronym, “DUMBO” (Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Having returned to my roots (sort of), albeit part-time, after 26 years of happy exile in New England (I was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Forest Hills, Queens; and we’ll continue to maintain a home in Northampton, Massachusetts), I’m intending to do some writing about my re-discovery of the borough — and city — of my childhood where, as fate of course would have it, both my adult children now reside. As is often the case when I promise myself to get serious about my writing, we’ll see.
Archive for October, 2007
Brooklyn Redux
Posted in Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City on October 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Travel Photo of the Day: The Candy Men of Xochimilco
Posted in Foreign Travel, Photography, The Americas on October 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Two of the many vendors encountered while cruising the crowded canals of Xochimilco in the south of the Mexico City D.F.
The 'Not-So-Rough' Guide 