No Address, Part 2: Spoke to Your Kids
By Urban Thought at 10 April, 2008, 12:30 am
Continued from No Address, Part 1:
You’re daughter called me. I’m sure she got the number from you. I don’t know why she bothered calling. I didn’t get why she called. It made no sense at all. My mother thought it great. She talked to me and asked me what I knew of you. I told [...]
Lies, Lies, Can’t Believe a Word they Say! – Part 2: Finding Love in the Big City XIII
By The Orange Phoenix at 24 February, 2008, 12:00 am
If you remember the last time you were in a sex drought, getting it is exciting and reminds you that damn it I’m still alive and someone still think I’m fine. Well, that is what it felt like. Just like any high, eventually you come down and start asking questions and really consider what happened and [...]
Read More >>Lies, Lies, Can’t Believe a Word they Say! – Part 1: Finding Love in the Big City XIII
By The Orange Phoenix at 22 February, 2008, 12:00 am
Back into the swing of the dating pool, feeling more confident about having attracted more people, getting more looks on the subway ride to work (aside from the homeless men looking at me as if I’m a Human ATM Machine), I decide to diversify my assets. . . see what it’s like to date more [...]
Read More >>Season of Giving: Donating Dollars
By Urban Thought at 28 December, 2007, 1:53 am
Since Urban Observation debuted I’ve had plenty of friends send me observations of their own. They’ll say, “UT, you wouldn’t believe what someone said to me the other day” or “UT, let me tell you what I saw.”
The following is an e-mail I received from a friend who works for a not-for-profit organization (or is it [...]
Lost Ones
By The Orange Phoenix at 30 July, 2007, 10:00 am
So while writing a friend of mine, trying to explain why he shouldn’t move out of the “hood” and the merits of staying and making it a home, I had to put myself in his shoes – someone trying to be upwardly mobile, even borderline bougie would obviously believe that the ‘burbs are the promise [...]
Read More >>U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion
By Urban Thought at 30 June, 2007, 6:50 am
(June 30) — By next year, more than half the world’s population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, and the number is expected to swell to almost five billion by 2030, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released yesterday.
A United Nations study predicts that the bulk [...]
Renter’s Cant Catch A Break
By Urban Thought at 21 June, 2007, 1:06 pm
New York renters squeezed by the lowest vacancy rates in three years are unlikely to get any relief next week when rent-stabilized guidelines come up for a vote.
The Rent Guidelines Board recommended increases between 2 and 4.5 percent for one-year leases and between 4 and 7.5 percent for two-year leases at a preliminary vote last [...]
Taxi Cab Confession: What’s Wrong with America?
By Urban Thought at 3 June, 2007, 11:00 am
“You know what’s wrong with America?,” The cab driver asked me. I wasn’t too sure on how to respond. As I know there is plenty wrong with America.
I could have started with immigrants and the issues with the US Border Patrol. I could have gone as far as telling him about the outdated education system [...]
Mayor Bloomberg Pays Parents To Care for Their Kids
By Urban Thought at 30 March, 2007, 2:15 pm
It isn’t enough to have children and want to see them make a difference in the world, keep your family name going or push them to do better than you’ve done in life, out of love of self and love for your child. No, it isn’t that simple anymore (was it ever?).
Mayor Bloomberg has proposed [...]
Mayor to Pay Poor Parents And Children to Get Out of Poverty
By Urban Thought at 30 March, 2007, 10:10 am
March 30, 2007
Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a novel $50-million initiative yesterday that will pay poor New York families cash for taking steps to lift themselves out of poverty by keeping their children in school, staying healthy and earning more.
Under the two-year pilot program, 2,500 families will earn rewards ranging from $50 [...]
Eight children from Mali die in New York City fire
By Urban Thought at 9 March, 2007, 11:24 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nine immigrants from Mali, including eight children, died in a house fire after flames raced up the stairs, trapping people on the second floor, officials said on Thursday.
Twenty-two people from the West African nation lived in a wooden house that had been split into two apartments in the Bronx section of [...]
Three Down
By Urban Thought at 10 November, 2006, 10:42 pm
They say people go in threes. When it comes to Hollywood or anyone in the spotlight it is very easy to keep track. Death is an unfortunate situation but it is apart of life. This week we lose three great people (depending on who you talk to).
Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes fame died [...]
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