Starbucks and New York go together like, well, like Starbucks and New York.
It is easy to understand why we associate the Seattle coffee giant so strongly with New York City. After all, there are more than 193 Starbucks outlets blanketing the island of Manhattan. That works out to more than 8 Starbucks per square mile, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘new york city’
Starbucks’ colonization of NYC [map]
Corporate attack posters [follow-up]
Negative campaigning is one of the great things about America. And few negative ad wars are more entertaining to watch than when two big companies go after each other.
A few weeks back I posted a web ad that Motorola had released attacking the iPhone. It was a delightful little piece of corporate negative campaigning, and [...]
Disposable umbrellas
I’ve written about this before, but here is a picture to illustrate the point.
One of the great things about New York City is that you never need to worry about remembering to carry an umbrella. Why? Because whenever there is so much as a hint of rain, an army of enterprising street merchants appear out of nowhere to [...]
Should New York try running negative ads?
The AP reports that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London Mayor Boris Johnson have agreed to swap ad space on each city’s public transportation system in order to boost mutual tourism. London will be able to place a few dozen ads in MTA buses while New York will get poster locations in the Underground.
Of course, what [...]
The Pay-Toilet Address
I wrote this as a memorial on the 18 month anniversary of the new pay toilet installed in Madison Square Park. It is one of two pay toilets that have been installed in New York by a Spanish company seeking to undermine the right to pee for free that was hard won by the Committee [...]
Being an American means you don’t have to sweat (as much)
Taking the subway in the middle of the summer is never going to be an entirely pleasant experience. For starters, the fact you’re taking the subway means you’ve already had to leave your air-conditioned home or office and ventured out into the summer heat.
But at least in America when you finally get on the [...]
5 Things about New York City that make America Great (and 4 that remind me of Europe)
In some ways, New York is the most American of cities. Its energy, drive and optimism are emblematic of the American spirit. It is also the birthplace of many great American institutions that have yet to disseminate across much of the rest of the country, like taxi cabs that take credit cards. But with its [...]
Yellow Journalism Watch: New York Times continues its assault on the freedoms of motorists
For a paper based in the most pedestrian-oriented city in the country, the editors at the New York Times sure have it in for America’s motorists. For the last few weeks, the Times has been running a series called “Driven to Distraction” about the extreme dangers purportedly posed by motorists who chat on their cell [...]
Michigan to Manhattan: A cross-country scorecard of what makes America great (Part 2).
This is the second of a two-part series recapping my move to New York. If you missed part 1, you can read it here.
Eastern Pennsylvania
After refueling at the Flying J, things in Pennsylvania went pretty smoothly. That is, they went smoothly until about hour seven of my journey, when I decided to turn off [...]
