TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

Scuffed for a most noble reason. More on this and the other New York in a week or so. The blog is currently on its travels. See you soon ...

On the way to Washington Square, these houses could be in Chelsea. Chelsea, London, I mean. Confusingly, New York has a Chelsea. And a Soho...

Or one of them, can be found in the Fraunces Tavern, a real old pub squeezed uncomfortably among the skyscrapers near Wall Street. It was h...

Here is a very small selection of some new York City quirkery. How nice, for example, to spy a bootblack's stall. I doubt they do much ...

Some New York quirkery... Watch this space

Or perhaps the other, other New York, which is Brooklyn. It of course used to be a separate city. Apparently it's now the tourist thing...

The blog has returned from a cold, rainy weekend visit to New York City - about as far removed from western New York (300 miles and many mo...