What New Yorkers Name Their Kids

Okay, this is unscientific almost to the point of being Gladwellian, but I’ve noticed a lot of crazy names written under the pictures of schoolkids in my meanderings through the pre-K and kindergarten classrooms of the New York public schools. Sometimes I wish we weren’t all so predictable, but in my small sample, the three major ethnic groups …

Can’t We All Just Get Along? No!

JP, cover your ears (or your eyes; this is a blog; oh wait, you’re three–you can’t read; continue with your business): New York HATES you. And let’s not even get into how they feel about Matt’s darling child Sasha. Don’t feel too bad, though, kids: they really hate me. We’ve been running a lot of …