It's nearly Christmas here in NYC, in my humble opinion one of the most beautiful places at this time of year, with lights and trees and festive cocktails wherever you look. I still find the chirpy 'happy holidays' greeting a bit discombobulating, though I appreciate the attempt to be all inclusive…. Especially as a heathen […]

There is a strangely disproportionate amount of wall art in the area immediately surrounding us. Here's a selection for you. I'm pretty sure the first three are done by the same artist, who must have offered some sort of buy two, get one free deal. The beautiful Park Slope library (of COURSE they have a […]

It probably goes without saying (which isn't going to stop me from saying it) that finding decent places to sublet is largely a matter of luck. Fortunately for myself and Mr, we tend to receive preferential treatment from subletters. Partly, as I've said before, because many Americans seem to save a little soft spot for […]

So, we've moved to Park Slope, an area which I once described to me as the most Brooklyn of all Brooklyn areas, which was not a compliment. This is the Brooklyn that makes some people hate Brooklyn, Park Slope is the hipster of neighborhoods, the area everyone loves to hate. Though it's actually less hipster […]

After spending our first two months in central Manhattan, I started to widen the hunt for our next apartment. Almost everyone we met lived in Brooklyn anyway and we'd finally accepted that taking the subway to work wasn't such a deal breaker (we're a little slow on the uptake sometimes). Brooklyn is absolutely enormous, in […]

I've written before about the Brooklyn flea markets, held every weekend in Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The same collective also run two food markets every weekend, Smorgasburgs, in Williamsburg (natch) and DUMBO. A couple of weeks ago we visited the latter, for the last market of the season. We spent our time munching through the […]