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Tag Archives: Brooklyn
Not your usual guidebook for NYC
Filmmaker and social media maven Nicolas Heller, also known as New York Nico, boasts more than a million people followers on his eponymous Instagram account where he chronicles the characters of New York City. Heller platforms ordinary New Yorkers along … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Maps, Public Transport, Restaurants, Tourism, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, Travel Guidebooks
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Literary Leviathan
I was saddened to read about the death of the great American writer Paul Auster, who succumbed due to complications arising from lung cancer, aged 77. Auster, who has been celebrated as one of the most important American authors of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, Freedom of Speech, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, novelists, Paul Auster, Sunset Park
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Go To A Happy Place
One Minute Park: I really, really enjoy this pure dead simple website. One Minute Park couldn’t be more basic – click the link and you get transported to a full-screen video, in landscape, which lasts for exactly 60 seconds and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Film, Tourism, USA
Tagged Amsterdam, Brooklyn, green space, parks
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Would you like to buy a bridge
I’ve recently been watching a period drama series set in New York City during the early 1880s. A number of episodes feature story lines about the building of the world famous Brooklyn Bridge which officially opened on May 24, 1883. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, History, Photography, Public Transport, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, Hart Crane, New York City, Publishing and Printing, Walker Evans
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Museum of Failure
Brooklyn New York City is the latest stop for the traveling exhibition called the Museum of Failure. Located in Industry City in Sunset Park, the show celebrates “overhyped products that never really took off” and other epic fails (Trump steaks, anyone?). … Continue reading
Brooklyn Public Library’s Most Borrowed Book
When I was a young child I spent quite a lot of time in Brooklyn. I did the usual things that Brooklyn kids did; I played stick ball in the street and stuffed my face at the corner candy store. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, Brooklyn Public Library, Charles Dickens, Maurice Sendak, New York City
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Bookstore Tourism: Secret Bookshop Brooklyn
Hidden within an iconic New York City bodega in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood you can find the newly launched Burnt Books. No secret passwords or handshakes are required to browse their stock of secondhand and collectible books; you just need find … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism, USA
Tagged bodegas, Bookselling, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York City
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The Oldest House in NYC
Having spent quite a bit of my childhood in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, I am more than a little chagrinned to admit that I never visited the oldest house in NYC which is located there. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Film, History, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Brooklyn, Colonial America, New Amsterdam, New York
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When did it become so strange
I was captivated by the charming video Nine Letters, which was written and directed by the Brazilian-Swiss filmmaker Cristina Müller. The poignant short film is built around a series of letters and cards ranging from the 1930s to the present … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Film, South America, USA, Writing
Tagged Brazil, Brooklyn, Edward Hopper, NYC, Switzerland
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman Happy Birthday Walt “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York City, Poetry, Walt Whitman
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Travel Between The Pages 