Eric Schwartau
Articles

Catty Corner
Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.



Catty Corner
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.

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

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

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


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

Wrecking Ball
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
5/21/24
Mouth-Watering
East Village —
A purist waterscape of faraway springs, streams, and reservoirs formed in my mind.
5/8/24
The Pains of Fame
Soho —
A who’s who of Dimes Square literati and Canadians who moved to Berlin who moved to New York
9/7/23
Dog Days of Summer
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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