Boy in Bushwick

Good riddance Irene!

I shot this from my bedroom window on Jefferson Street in Bushwick around 7:50 a.m. as the center of Hurricane Irene passed within 30 miles ...

The brunt of Hurricane Irene continues to bear down on Bushwick. The lights have flickered a couple of times here on Jefferson Street, bu...

The outer banks of Hurricane Irene have begun to reach Bushwick. A steady and increasingly torrential rain began about 20 minutes ago...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 shook large swaths of the East Coast shortly before 2 p.m. The earthquake’s epicent...

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday, Aug. 23, dismissed all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Nafissatou Diallo claims that the former he...

Started writing at 9:12 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, while listening to the rain and thunder from inside Ocean Beach and reading Tweets abou...

DNAinfo.com reported late on Wednesday, Aug. 17, that police have arrested a Brooklyn man in connection with a transgender woman’s murder i...

Started writing at 8:24 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 14, while cooking dinner in Ocean Beach. The torrential rains that inundated the area t...

It was apparently a night for gotcha questions! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich certainly let his displeasure with his former Fox News...

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Rick Perry has told the Associated Press that the Republican will formally announce his presidential campaign...

The White Mountains proved the perfect place for this flatlander to escape the "big city" on Wednesday, Aug. 10. Today'...

Spending a few days with my family in Manchester, N.H., provides an opportunity to take stock of the political goings on ahead of the first-...

Started writing at 4:42 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 7, as the bus on which I am traveling to Boston passed Exit 72 on Interstate 84 in northeast Co...

Spending the summer on Fire Island can certainly insulate one from the outside world, but news of another transgender person's death pro...

It was certainly a dramatic early evening on Fire Island on Monday, Aug. 1, as a series of thunderstorms brushed the beach. A downpour drenc...

Started writing at 8:49 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, after dinner at the cottage in Ocean Beach. Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride? Well I ...

Started writing in Marble Hill at 4:48 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26. The eye candy proved particularly sweet in Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pin...

Marriage equality is officially a reality in New York! I was on the dock in Cherry Grove when the law officially took effect at midnight, an...

It's 9:12 a.m., and it's already hot! An Excessive Heat Warning will be in effect in the five boroughs from noon to 8 p.m. The temp...