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A look at the Steven Alan store - maker of the definitive “I’m wearing a button down that I was too lazy to pick up off the floor” shirt.

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A look at where finance guys go to stay sharp, the Thomas Pink store on Wall Street, right before the 2008 crash. I was confused why everyone was so rich except for me at the time, but then I discovered that 75% of the money wasn’t real in the first place.

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Photo by Randy Harris

One of three travel articles for the NYT - the brass ring of travel journalism. This on Kate's Lazy Meadow in the Catskills, which was recently sold.

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A brief recap of a book on the history of the penis. That's the kind of subject matter the NYT allowed me to write about back when I was scrambling up the ladder.

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Photo by Donna Alberico

Happiness on clearance

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For the Times’ T magazine, I traveled to Venezuela’s archipelago of islands. It was the tail end of Chavez’s rule. Not in this story was time spent with both pro and anti- Chavez Venezuelans. Passionate divisions that at the time seemed so foreign, but were a premonition of America in 2016 and beyond.

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One of the best things about writing that column in the Times was to highlight talented undersung designers like Eunice Lee. I still consider my shirts and shorts that I got from the store three of my most valuable pieces.

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You may recall the Second Wave of the premium jean market in the late 00s (the first being the 80s)…now we are simply lousy in jeans both high and low. It’s like streaming content - saturated!

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A write up on the Brooklyn Flea in the late 00s, as Brooklyn as a brand was being burnished.

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A review of Rag and Bone on Christopher Street, at the beginning of the label’s influence on the “I really need an 80 dollar T-shirt” New Gilded Age.