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Down By the Riverside
It wasn’t the best weather for it (rain threatening, a stiff breeze blowing, clouds lowering), but a batch of us made our way to Riverside Park for some fun on the grass. We also stopped by the grand...
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Lady Liberty
No time for a full report now, not while the sun is shining and there’s fun to be had. But we just had to share this photo with you. It’s of a group of very happy women exercising their rights down in...
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Where Are The Books? Where Are The Boys?
Questions we got after our last post included, “What happened to your books?” and “If you’re a co-ed group, why don’t we ever see any males in the photos? Are they just shy?” Well, yes, they tend to be...
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Things Are Looking Up
Still sorting through all the great pics we took at Rockefeller Park this past week, and found several with something in common. Can you guess what it is? (Yes, we’re suckers for categorization. Some...
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Brooklyn Bridge
Who knew? While female toplessness is legal in all public spaces in New York State where male toplessness is permitted, the lovely parks near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge turn out not to be...
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I Like the Rowing On Central Park Lake
I like a prizefight that isn’t a fake, I like the rowing on Central Park Lake… Lorenz Hart wrote those lines, in the beautiful (and, I stress, ironically titled) “The Lady Is a Tramp.” He also wrote I...
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At the Temple of Books
The New York Public Library is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Not just architecturally, though it certainly is that, but conceptually. A free space where any woman or man can come to...
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…and Behind the Temple of Books
We reported the other day on our trip to the New York Public Library; the same day, we also stopped by Bryant Park, which lies right in the library’s shadow. Once a crime-ridden pit, where the only...
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The Girls From Brazil
What is it about Brazil? We’ve had visitors to New York ask to join us from time to time while they’re in town, it’s not that unusual. But this summer we’ve been flooded with requests from Brazilians,...
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Elmore Leonard, R.I.P.
Earlier this summer, we ran a post called “Dutch Treat,” about how the great crime novelist Elmore Leonard, author of GET SHORTY and FREAKY DEAKY and GOLD COAST and RUM PUNCH and so many others, found...
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Sunday Brunch
So the weather this weekend wasn’t what you’d call great sunbathing weather. It was 70 degrees rather than 80 or 90 and a little breezy and overcast, and once or twice it threatened to rain. But we...
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Thanks a Lot, Reddit
If you don’t see any images on our blog, you can thank Reddit. Yesterday, following a post about us on Reddit, more than 100,000 people visited our site, by far the most we’ve ever had in one 24-hour...
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Making a Splash
We’ve been to Washington Square Park before—but not since the very first time we met, back in the summer of 2011. It was high time for another visit. So off we went, a small band that included one...
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Hey, Creepy Guy
In our last post, we alluded to the fact that some of the people who enthusiastically gathered around us in Washington Square Park were a little too enthusiastic. Overall our experience in the park was...
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Happy International Go Topless Day
Yesterday was the sixth annual “International Go Topless Day,” celebrated around the world, both in cities where female toplessness is legal (like New York) and ones where it is not yet legal, making...
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Back On the High Line
In the spirit of revisiting all our old haunts, we took another trip to the High Line, Manhattan’s newest park, built on an old elevated freight train track near the Hudson River, in the Meatpacking...
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On Modesty
One of our old friends returned to New York recently after spending time in Egypt and Turkey and Israel and India. As it happens, she can pass for a native of any or all of the above—in Egypt,...
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Rainy Days and Spa Days
The latter days are upon us. It feels like fall. Suddenly afternoons in the park are brisk rather than sweltering, and walking off the street and into the sauna in a spa doesn’t feel redundant. On a...
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A Wake For Summer
When morn in late September sunlit dawns, Presentiments of autumn nowhere seen, Nor wintry breezes, nor the touch of rain That lately has defiled so many days, And in its stead the warm caress of air...
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Out and About
Who says the fall is too cold for strolling shirtless? Not when the mercury flirts with 80 degrees in New York City, not when there’s an open-air food festival to explore near Madison Square Park… …and...
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