Posts Tagged ‘Susan Braudy’s Diary’

Dissecting New York’s ‘Livability’

Written by admin on March 18, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I’m twitching. I’m poring over some 100 pages of the Economist’s assiduously researched rankings of the world’s most livable cities. Phheww! I can’t believe the venerable Economist ranks us 56th in livability out of 140 world cities. It turns out that Detroit (ranking 40) and Cleveland (ranking 44) and Chicago (ranking 32) are better places
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Melissa Works Her Magic

Written by admin on March 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Before I actually know I’m frightened, my gut tightens, my palms itch. Yes, like you, gentle reader, I’m cursed and blessed—each of us is in our own way—with the old mind-body connection. And now I’ve undergone a change in my life that I want to share with you. It starts with Melissa Tiers, clinical hypnotist
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Reunioning, My Way

Written by admin on February 18, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Gentle reader, your diarist hates going to reunions of any kind—unwilling to measure the sadistic passing of time by smudges under familiar eyes, or to get trapped by well meaning semi-strangers making small talk. So despite strict orders from one good friend from the Philadelphia High School for Girls (I tease her that I think
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Help Wanted, Part 2

Written by admin on February 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

After grad school, I pushed and pulled my life so that I could immigrate to Manhattan. I was in love. With everything here. I remember telling my grandmother how I loved studying each different ethnic face on subways. My ardor was undiminished even when she worried from San Diego that I should move to a
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Help Wanted, Part 1

Written by admin on January 8, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I know a darling, super-competent, hard-working 2009 NYU honors graduate named Kate Berlant who’s in love with Manhattan, but confused about how to make a living. The turmoil of unemployment (above 10 percent in our area) hits new grads hard. Older applicants with more experience consistently trump even the best and brightest of them. Internships
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Houseguests With Love

Written by admin on December 9, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

My friend Joe and I are redefining our domestic spaces. We’ve been turning ourselves, our high-strung ménage of cats and dogs and our sun-dappled apartment inside out. We installed two huge white bookcases (donated by our totally generous and ingenious neighbor Andrea Basile) to partition off part of the living room and thus create a
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More Cool Britania

Written by admin on December 9, 2009. Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: Ms. Braudy, I read with interest your recent column about British TV miniseries (“Cool Britania,” Susan Braudy’s Diary, Nov. 26) and would like to add my old favorite: Crackers, with Robbie Coltrane. He was amazing as a troubled crime psychologist who often gets too involved with the criminal suspect’s mind. Sandy Malter
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Cool Britannia

Written by admin on November 25, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Mayor Bloomberg and I love the British TV series Foyle’s War. He’s in movie-love with the demure leading lady in Army uniform, Honeysuckle Weeks. I’m shocked! Of course, the mayor owns this superb English TV series’ set of DVDs at about $50 a season (each DVD is at least three hours), and I rent them
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Turning Japanese

Written by admin on November 11, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

For years I’ve been flagrantly getting high—high as a kite—in a secluded store on the East Side. I open a nondescript door on Lexington at 61st Street, beneath a banner that reads “Things Japanese,” and make my way up a narrow stairway to the second floor. Suddenly, thousands of museum-quality Japanese antiques make my mood
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Central Park Love Song

Written by admin on October 29, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I love Central Park. As a very young person, I missed the spiritual lesson in the perennial beauty of blooming and dying flowers. I’ve a long view from my living room of Central Park treetops to Harlem. Falcons glide on wind currents at my windows. Right now, fat leafy treetops look like bridal bouquets. Winters,
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