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...their trouble). Their Indo-American fans, many gorgeously duded up in turbans or silk saris, had come to bond with their homeland's most popular art form. "Every South Asian grows up with some kind of connection to Bollywood," notes Indian writer (and Brooklyn resident) Suketu Mehta. "In certain ways, it's what unites...
...something different to do," says widowed kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams Florsheim, 58. She had her first date with divorced accountant Henry Florsheim, 54, at the cafe in 1999. She had asked to meet him after reading his profile. They were married a year later and now live in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you had told me that I would meet my husband through a place like Drip," she says, "I would have said you had to be kidding...
...those of us who are, in Melville's words, "pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks." Nathaniel Stone had a desk job at a newspaper in New Mexico when he made up his mind out of the blue to row from Brooklyn, N.Y., all the way to New Orleans and back; he took rivers and canals heading south (with the occasional portage where necessary) and hugged the Atlantic seacoast on the return leg. In On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat, a chatty, cheerful account of his journey, Stone faithfully records...
...checks ranging from $10,000 to $70,000). Their Indo-American fans, many gorgeously dressed in turbans or silk saris, had come to bond with their homeland's most popular art form. "Every South Asian grows up with some kind of connection to Bollywood," notes Indian writer (and Brooklyn resident) Suketu Mehta. "In certain ways, it's what unites...
This is what I think about as I cross the Brooklyn Bridge and stare at Lower Manhattan. I wonder how much it would take to truly foolproof the structure I’m standing on—what it would take to search every car, to reinforce every beam and cable, to install the necessary guns atop each tower. And still, even in this wildly hypothetical case, the new foe, evil’s newfound creativity, would continue to find ways around the latest roadblocks. There is a risk, a vulnerability simply in existing...