New York: No Comment

"Brownstoner’s posts tend to read like the reportage of a particularly smart and opinionated community paper. The comment section, by contrast, has become a rolling transcript of the borough’s new anxieties, shameful prejudices, and secret fears. For a long time, those anxieties centered on being left out or pushed out—hopeful buyers or displaced renters thwarted Read More

Are New York’s Sidewalks Shrinking?


Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

In this week’s New York magazine, culture editor Emily Nussbaum wrote about UrbanBaby.com, the online playpen for lonely, drunk, angry, scared, and fun-loving mothers, and in doing so described a change in New York City.

With a 26 percent rise in the number of 5-year-olds in New Read More