Village Voice Summer Issue
May 30th, 2006
I covered The Rockaways, Alley Pond and the NYC Aquarium for the Village Voice summer special issue.

I covered The Rockaways, Alley Pond and the NYC Aquarium for the Village Voice summer special issue.
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My first job in high school wasn’t scooping ice cream or tearing movie-theater tickets. Instead, I spent a summer working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where my mother, a Foreign Service officer with the State Department, was stationed. I was assigned to the “visa barn”—aptly nicknamed because of the building’s shape, and its chaotic interior with rows of benches for applicants to wait.
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With a milling crowd on the sidewalk, mornings at the new Balducci’s on Eighth Avenue at 14th Street are reminiscent of another Chelsea institution, the mega-club.
NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: CHELSEA; Lining Up at Balducci’s, And Not for the Salmon