Seven cover stories from the New York Times’ Sunday City section.

Profiles of New Yorkers from the New York Times’ Sunday City section.

Profiles of Long Islanders from the New York Times’ Sunday Long Island section.



A selection of essays written over the past fifteen years.

One of my first pieces to be published was a “Dispatches New York” column that ran in the London version of Time Out magazine in the early 1990s. I had complete freedom to write about whatever I wanted, provided it was squeezed into 600 words or less. The column ran sporadically—very sporadically—for several years. It’s interesting looking back and seeing how much the city has changed in the proceeding decade and a half.