It Looks So Effortless

When the ball drops in Times Square on Saturday evening, New Year’s Eve, you will see lots of people.  Pause to consider the organization that takes place behind the scene before the event.  On Tuesday on some sidewalks, the crowd-control-cement-blocks, the size of ponies, were already in place. There are many tourists here for the …

Toiling Away

When non-New Yorkers think of the City and Broadway, they assume that every actor in town is gunning to be on the main stage of some Broadway production, but that is oh so not the case. Tucked away in basements, behind store fronts, in high rise buildings on floors assessable sometimes only by walking up …