Category: Food/Drinks

Food/Drinks in New York City tells the stories of how we live, eat, and see the world around us.

Graffiti on a New York City lamppost declaring "Art is free, so is love."

So True

Sometimes the trash we encounter on the streets of New York City has its own message, and any sort of commentary or artful exploration meaning for isn't necessary. This was one of those times. The trash, and its surrounding context,...Read More

The Last Straw

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I was patient. I was kind. I was loyal. I was present. I was there... Now I'm gone... The last straw. Enough. Is enough. That's it. I'm gone. And so are you. For more NYC Trash Stories and insights into...Read More

New York City Pizza: Urban Soul Food

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New York City pizza is the symbol of our culture and the signature staple food in the culinary lexicon of our citizens. Our colorful City is home to more than 8.3 million people who speak over 800 different languages. With...Read More

Alone Together

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New York City has always been a uniquely lonely place for wayward souls that bend toward solitude in a scrambling throng of millions. Perhaps we find meaning in the penumbra of that juxtaposition, or perhaps we just ended up here...Read More

Always St. Patrick’s Day

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Sometimes our trash can be intangible things we leave behind, like memories and moments. COVID-19 has forever changed New York City, and for places like the Barcelona Bar on 8th Avenue, time stopped just before St. Patrick’s Day 2020 and...Read More

Bread Winners & Losers

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New York City is a matrix of misfortune and millionaires. Between good luck and greed and inequality and those arrested for weed, life just isn’t fair in New York City. At the center of these extremes and juxtapositions and injust...Read More