Knickerbocker (2024)

This magazine takes its moniker from the little-known poet and diarist, Hendrik-Jan Knickerbocker, a civil servant who was--without ever knowing it--New York’s first journalist, back when the city was the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

10/04/2024

13/12/2023

Pat me on the back! I just finished reading an unbelievably brilliant t-shirt. The author is a renowned genius without any doubt. And, he’s the only published author I know, so I felt somewhat obligated to dip my big toe in. Just so I could be the first on my block to brag about it and not be embarrassed about my selfishness. He’s the only genius I know personally, and if I don’t introduce you, please forgive me for being a little protective or selfish, or whatever. I can’t oblige everyone, I’m just one humble person. Never fear. Even though I may not facilitate your desire to experience “rubbing elbows” with this genius, I will gladly show you my OWN elbow, hone as it is on the mighty. (Thank you Dorothy Parker for that witty turn-of-phrase which I just appropriated)

This work of consummate artistry took me a few years to finish, but it was so, so, so, so worth the time I didn’t spend on it. I thought it best to finish the book while the author was still alive, so I could get what they call “brownie points.” I am told that phrase is a polite way to describe compensation for blatant “ass kissing.”

If you don’t like reading, you can just look at the picture. It seems that the author thought of everything. Well, almost …

The only problem I encountered is that there is no place to insert a bookmark at your pausing points to make taking a few months off from the marvelousness experience a little more convenient. For that I deduct one millionth of a star from my rating.

10/12/2023

Twelve years ago, for my first published issue of KNICKERBOCKER QUARTERLY, I wrote (and photographed) an article about the Canadians who migrate here annually to sell Xmas trees on the Upper West Side. Sebastian and his trees are back, and here I am at his Xmas tree shack, holding up a copy of the aforementioned article. Time has flown but good friendships are timeless.

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