Eric Schwartau

Articles

On January 5, Doctor Kathy Hochul finally gave New York its gogo juice, prescribing a bitter pill known as congestion pricing to clear its clogged passages and stimulate its mass transit system.

Wherever man spews his seed, there are rats indeed.

Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.

Evading the question of fare evasion

Self-care, evidently, is a virtuous quest worthy of legend.

With his lease as his leash, caged in this giant city-cum-dog park, our columnist roams the streets as a stray, guided by unseemly scents.

A self-described Renaissance man wrestles with the legacy of his former Bushwick abode.

We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.

New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.

On New York’s changing bath culture

A good-intentioned book channels a torrent of research and riffs into galaxy-brain takes.

Our Catty Corner columnist ponders the war on cars.

Like with much of what is spewed out of New York’s over-hyped, PR-industrial complex, a closer look at Central Park reveals a thin green veneer covering a hollow and tired system.

Dispatches

East Village — A purist waterscape of faraway springs, streams, and reservoirs formed in my mind.
Soho — A who’s who of Dimes Square literati and Canadians who moved to Berlin who moved to New York
Hell’s Kitchen — Lost in a champagne sea of figurative flotsam and abstract jetsam, I finally stumbled upon art that affirmed my own taste, which we’ll call a mix of Adbusters and “institutional critique.”

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