The other day, Chris, a local old-timer, sent me photos of a few items he has hanging on his kitchen wall.  Old envelopes, bank letterhead, and a…

The other day, I was given a treasure trove of SoHo memory in the form of two boxes full of issues of The SoHo Weekly News from 1974 and…

This May, I will be traveling in Japan with my family, and while I am there, I will be having a SoHo Memory Project exhibition at my father’s…

My mother told me the other day that, shortly after she moved to SoHo in 1968, she submitted an application to live in Stuyvesant Town, the (then…

Happy birthday to us!  January 1 will mark the second anniversary of The SoHo Memory Project.  I thought I’d take this opportunity to look toward…

The 1970’s were the heyday of New York graffiti. I remember sitting in subway cars so thoroughly covered, inside and out, with spray-painted tags…

One of the many perks of my "day job" at New York Bound Books is that I get to pore through lots of rare books about New York, for research and…

A friend recently emailed me an image of the back of the cover of Joni Mitchell's 1968 album Song to a Seagull because the photo was…

 We've been trudging up and down the stairs, walking what seems like miles to get groceries, and schlepping everything in the dark.  No…