Old Stuff

Transport, Motorways and Tramlines

A high-speed train in motion at dusk, captured with a motion blur effect over intersecting railway tracks and overhead electric lines

The opening lyrics to Radiohead’s 1997 “Let Down,” which is, partly, about being in transit, which New York always is. And transit news is splashed across paper headlines and websites as New York forges ahead with implementing congestion pricing barring a court injunction stemming from several lawsuits. As a former reporter I regularly reported on […]

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Remembering New York

View of the Lower Manhattan skyline at sunset with the One World Trade Center prominently in the center and reflections on the Hudson River.

New York of the 1980s that is when my first full-time gig was in the tradeshow business at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. I entered at a young age the world of work, and if that wasn’t hard enough, me and all my fellow colleagues had to endure outright mob control. But the mob’s

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