Mike McCready

While on a walk this morning I was down at Ground Zero and saw the progress. I’ve heard the new Freedom Tower is adding one story per week. It’s great to see this finally getting done after so much time. See the photo below:

I’m very fortunate to be able to live in two great cities. One drawback however is how long it takes to get from one place to the other. Often I fly direct but sometimes for one thing or another I have a layover. Today I had a layover in Madrid and my flight to Barcelona [...]

My neighborhood, Greenwich Village in Manhattan is home to a lot of celebrities. Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and their children live down the street. This morning I’m on my way to the office and I see this big billboard for SJP’s next movie on the side of a building and it occurs to me that they can’t leave home without seeing that and I just wondered what that must be like. “Look kids. There’s mommy!”

Click on any of the images in this post to expand their size. Immediately after the December 7, 1942 bombing of Pearl Harbor Edward Hopper began painting Nighthawks, one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. After this event there was a widespread feeling of gloominess across the country, a feeling that is portrayed in [...]

(text en català a continuació) Speaking of “hey look at me!” posts… early last year I thought I wanted to do a series of video podcasts that featured (rather, sort of compared and contrasted) Barcelona and New York. I go back and forth quite a bit so I thought I could get plenty of fresh footage [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable in [...]

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.

In Spain you NEVER see pictures of the first family’s children. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister doesn’t allow it. However, this week in New York at the UN Sumit Spain’s first family had their picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama and The US State Department posted the photo on Flickr. Of [...]

All last year and early this year there was a lot of anticipation in the neighborhood about the High Line, a new elevated park in the Meatpacking District of the West Village. It offers great views of the neighborhood and of the Hudson River – and apparently of the people staying in The Standard Hotel in all their nudity and lewd behavior according to a report by Mike Taibbi on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.