The rap music that I associate with Stephanie and her boyfriend, Jason, shook the car as we drove down Highway 101 toward San Francisco. They were driving me to the airport after a spontaneous 48-hour trip at the end of… Continue Reading
“Don’t go to NYU. It will make you too liberal.” With that, Mitch* walked away. The date was April 1, 2013. The last of my college admissions decisions had come in three days earlier. Of course NYU, my number one… Continue Reading
Author and journalist Imma Vitelli graced the NYU Florence campus with her presence for her second dialogue of the semester, “The Craft of the Interview: How to Get People to Tell You Everything You Want to Know,” on March 2.… Continue Reading
Planters overflowing with herbs and flowers line Roberta’s dingy brick exterior. On the back patio, customers wolf down fresh pizza among the greenery. Gardener Melissa Metrick strolls among them, checking on the plants. Roberta’s, located in Bushwick, N.Y., is just… Continue Reading
If there is a time to be a tourist and surrounded by a sea of puffy coats in New York, it is during the holidays. Late November and December in New York feel so much more festive than anywhere else.… Continue Reading
Sean Basinski takes the New Yorker love of street cart food to the next level. He is the founder of the Street Vendor Project, an organization of about 2,000 vendors that works to raise awareness of vendors’ legal rights and… Continue Reading
Cooking is enjoyable but preparing anything more elaborate than pasta and chicken comes with a messy kitchen that often takes just as long to clean as actually making the meal. Sticking to the basics is much easier. This semester I have been… Continue Reading
In the back right corner of a minimally decorated room on the third floor of New York University’s Bobst Library is a door that opens a portal to a history nerd’s paradise. The dusty smell of aged books fills the nostrils… Continue Reading
Choose from 10 types of potatoes. Pick a protein (or not). Wait for the potato to glide out of the kitchen on a conveyor belt. Resume the assembly. Pick any of the 14 toppings, five cheeses and 15 sauces. Welcome… Continue Reading
When I was instructed to attend a tour at the Tenement Museum for class, I wasn’t sure how I felt. On the one hand, I like museums – but I mainly frequent art museums. I really want to like history,… Continue Reading
