NYC: Street Food a la Cart
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Graham Kates in Arts & Culture, Profiles, Travel
By Graham Kates
One of the time-honored delights of New York is the so-called street food offered by all manner of vendors. Tourists welcome the novelty of these rolling mini-kitchens on so many corners, and often go back to Peoria or Dubuque talking about the crusty hot pretzel or Hebrew National hot dog or roasted nuts they bought and consumed on the street. What many visitors don’t realize is how much everyday New Yorkers depend on street vendors near their homes or offices.
A Journey into Uganda's Deadly Malaria Zone
Posted on 27. May, 2009 by Rebecca Harshbarger in News Features, Travel
The buses going upcountry in Uganda are bright, advertisement-covered spectacles that rattle through landscapes of cassava, banana and coffee farms. When they stop for a moment, hindered by traffic, wandering livestock or passengers seeking a bathroom break, people who live in the small towns and villages along the road run to the side of the vehicles and set up a mini-market. They’ll try to sell you anything- livestock, goat meat, glass bottles of Fanta soda–even after your bus starts moving.
Here's What's Baking in Hell's Kitchen
Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Marcella Veneziale in Arts & Culture, Travel
Hell’s Kitchen, once one of New York’s most rough-and-tumble neighborhoods, now has more high-rise condominiums than dive bars. But some things never change.
The Poseidon Bakery on 9th Avenue near West 44th Street has been a neighborhood fixture for more than 85 years. The Greek pastry shop is like an extension of the owner’s kitchen. Lili Fable, who runs the bakery with her son Paul, called her family “quintessential shopkeepers” because she still lives upstairs with her husband Anthony. Even Paul lives in the building with his wife and children. (more…)
A Hazy Haven (Hack, Hack) of Legal Smoking
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Lois DeSocio in Offbeat, Travel
By Lois DeSocio
When people hang out at Hudson Bar and Books in Manhattan, they’re not flipping pages—they’re flicking ashes. It’s a place where the non-smokers are milling around outside the front door as they decide if a face-full of tobacco smoke is worth a step inside a place where smokers rule.
“Is this legal?” a passerby yells from the street outside the front door of this Greenwich Village cigar bar on a recent Saturday evening.
Six years after Mayor Bloomberg’s statewide anti-smoking law took effect, the patrons of Hudson Bar and Books puff away in a perpetual haze of toxic smoke. It’s one of a handful of cigar bars left in Manhattan under a “grandfather” clause that protected cigar bars that opened before December 31, 2001.
The Roller Godfather of Central Park
Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Linnea Covington in Profiles, Travel
The early October air smelled like sweet roasted nuts and burnt wood, the temperature had cooled down, and the turning of the leaves symbolized more then the end of summer 2008. It also denoted the season’s final weeks for the Central Park Dance Skate Association’s weekly roller skate parties in Central Park, which had been going on since 1979, founded and led by Lezly Ziering. (more…)
