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Born and Raised New Yorker who enjoys sharing information about my great city. I am 3rd generation and grew up in the same building my mom grew up in and the same building my grandmother lived in.

08/11/2026

Broadway etiquette isn't about being fancy. It's about not being the person the whole row remembers. Get to your seat before the lights go down, stand all the way up when someone needs the aisle, unwrap the cough drop during applause, and save the standing ovation for a performance that earned it. The rest of the house rules: https://go.borninthecity.com/house-rules-fb

Ten New York Things the Guidebooks Miss (Almost All of Them Free)People ask me what I do when I’m not writing about lott...
08/06/2026

Ten New York Things the Guidebooks Miss (Almost All of Them Free)

People ask me what I do when I’m not writing about lotteries and rush tickets. Mostly I walk around. I’ve been doing that here since I was a kid, in a building in Midtown where my mother and grandmother also grew up…

🎫 Read it: https://go.borninthecity.com/nyc-things-guidebooks-miss-fb

08/04/2026

Three blocks is the whole difference between a forty-dollar prix fixe and a dinner you'll actually remember. Ninth Avenue is where the theater district stops charging tourist prices — Thai, Greek, Cuban, halal counters, all of it cheaper than the glass of wine at intermission. Koreatown stays open late enough to catch you after curtain. Our map: https://go.borninthecity.com/eats-before-curtain-fb

08/03/2026

The bridge is standing because a woman learned engineering in secret while her husband hallucinated in a sickbed. History gave the credit to the men in suits, but the new musical Brooklyn Bridge is finally handing the blueprints back to Emily Roebling. She ran the site, she managed the cables, and she dragged this city into the modern era.

This production at The Space at Irondale leans into the grit of the project. It captures the frantic energy of a city under construction without turning it into a textbook lecture. It runs from August 7 through August 23 in Fort Greene. The venue has the right amount of industrial weight to house a story about actual labor.

We walk across that bridge without a second thought. It is time we recognized the person who ensured it would not collapse into the East River. Go see how the history books got it wrong.

🎫 Dates, venue and everything we know so far: https://go.borninthecity.com/brooklyn-bridge-fb

The Brooklyn Bridge was built by a woman while her husband spent the project bedridden in a Brooklyn Heights townhouse. ...
08/03/2026

The Brooklyn Bridge was built by a woman while her husband spent the project bedridden in a Brooklyn Heights townhouse. History erased her, but the patriarchy forgot to account for a musical. Emily Roebling finally gets the lead role in a project she actually managed.

The production opens at The Space at Irondale from August 7 through August 23. Fort Greene is the right place for this kind of correction. The venue has the industrial grit to match the subject. You will look at those cables differently on your next walk across the East River.

This is a necessary reclaiming of local history. The theater is accessible and the story is long overdue. Check the link for tonight's window.

🎫 Dates, venue and everything we know so far: https://go.borninthecity.com/brooklyn-bridge-fb

08/02/2026

They are putting an entire 1993 C-SPAN shouting match on a Brooklyn stage. It is two men, one broadcast, and a whole lot of institutional failure. Daniel Fish is directing this one, and he usually turns classics into something that feels like an interrogation.

The show recreates the collision between Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci. It strips away the politics to look at the cost of waiting for permission to survive. Will Brill and Thomas Jay Ryan are doing the heavy lifting at St. Ann's Warehouse.

The run begins September 27 and continues through October 24. Expect a cold, precise look at how bureaucracy kills. It is a necessary friction.

🎫 Dates, venue and everything we know so far: https://go.borninthecity.com/kramer-fauci-fb

Two men scream at each other on C-SPAN for ninety minutes in 1993, and now it is a play. Daniel Fish is directing this c...
08/02/2026

Two men scream at each other on C-SPAN for ninety minutes in 1993, and now it is a play. Daniel Fish is directing this collision at St. Ann's Warehouse, because why not force us to relive the most frustrating bureaucratic nightmare in recent medical history. Will Brill and Thomas Jay Ryan occupy the stage.

The production reconstructs the tension between Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci regarding the AIDS crisis. This is a story about the cost of bureaucracy when people are dying. It asks how much noise is required to move a government that does not want to be moved. It is necessary viewing for anyone who forgets that real progress usually starts with an insult.

The show runs from September 27 through October 24 in DUMBO. Take the F train and prepare for a heavy night. Check the site for the ticket window.

🎫 Dates, venue and everything we know so far: https://go.borninthecity.com/kramer-fauci-fb

07/29/2026

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