Broadway Legends

The iconic Broadway restaurant Sardi’s reopened this week to serve returning theater-goers.  It survived the pandemic with $4.5 million in Covid relief funds.  Hopefully, it will remain open and prosper. During my 30-year career in Manhattan real estate...

Just How Absurd?

Last week, speaking before Democrats at a holiday celebration House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have hit the punch bowl a bit early.  She exclaimed, “Our country could not be more – it could not be better served, than with this most experienced, capable hands than...

It’s A Wonderful Death?

As any proud Italophile knows, Christmas has deep Italic roots. The pagan Roman festival of Saturnalia – a week-long celebration of Saturn, the god of agriculture – was held between December 17 through December 23rd. Citizens put wreaths and other forms of shrubbery...

Dr. Pappagallo

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the highest paid bureaucrat in the federal government – some $500,000 per year. More than the president earns! As the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with a budget of $6 billion he is also the Chief Medical...

A Murder Mystery

A few days ago, three White men were convicted in a Georgia courtroom of the murder of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.  The trial was nationally televised and perceived as racially motivated.  Whether it was actually a hate crime will be determined in a second trial of...

The Quest for Justice

Crime and punishment have become an obsession these days.  We have lots of videos of crimes as they happen.  We see plenty of televised trials.  We see verdicts and sentencing that range from right-on to outrageous.   And since today commemorates the death of Italian...