About the Website and Site Editor
THE BIG APPLE. An etymological dictionary (over 39,000 entries) investigating the origins of American words, names, quotations and phrases, specializing in modern slang, neologisms, nicknames,…
Betsy Gotbaum and the fictional “Big Apple whores” (2004)
Betsy Gotbaum was elected New York City's Public Advocate in 2001. In 2004, I created this website for the Big Apple Fest. I had told the Big Apple Fest directors that the "Big Apple…
Cape May (Summary & Preface & Acknowledgments)
"Anything Can Happen in Cape May"--tourist slogan When I bought my apartment in New York City (in 1988) and moved from Spring Valley (Rockland County, NY), the first thing that I wrote…
Technology (Free wifi!)
[UPDATE: This was written when I was running for the office of Manhattan Borough President in 2005, and it was borrowed from a platform of Public Advocate candidate Andrew Rasiej. I have since…