Tonight: Kosher Uzbek cuisine at Salute, on 108th Street in Forest Hills, Queens. (Found a photo of the menu and food here.

Everything was delicious, but I especially enjoyed the Cheburekes (some kind of fried pastry with meat and potato), Samsa (another fried pastry with minced lamb and sauteed onion), the pickled cabbage, the chicken kebob, the homemade hummus and Lagman (a beef noodle soup). Tried the sweetbread kabob (pancreas or neck of piglet or calf) but by that time I was too full to fully enjoy. For dessert we ate baklava and (some kind of almond sugar thing?).

See pictures from Dad and Kendas visit. Highlights included the new Apple Store on 5th Avenue, a visit to Washington Square Park, lunch at Vineria con Cucina (MacDougal at Bleecker), and the South Street Seaport. Rode a water taxi from the Seaport to East 34th street. On Sunday afternoon sat behind homeplate at the Yankees vs. Royals game. Yankees won, 5-4.

Henry James' Old Neighborhood (NYT) is my New Neighborhood.

5th Avenue at Washington Square North. "The square in 1903, looking south, with the marble arch and, in the background, the campanile of Judson Memorial Church" (NYT 5/28/06)

David Brooks' column on income inequality and human capital policies

May 18-23: Long Weekend in DC. Pictures.

Apartment pictures. Also found some gorgeous photos taken on my street and vicinity (see all 3 pages). Apparently the photographer found a moving truck interesting enough, but not my building, which is actually tucked behind the townhomes.

the Onion: New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive

NEW YORK—Pro-life advocates celebrated approval of the new anti-abortion drug UR-86 by the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, calling it a "safe and effective method" for terminating pregnant women while leaving their unborn children unharmed.

Pfizer, manufacturer of UR-86—dubbed the "last-morning-ever pill"—said the drug is intended only for occasions when the mind-set or politics of the mother threaten the life of the fetus...

Pictures from a long city walk near the Queensboro Bridge, Sutton and Beekman Place, and the U.N. (plus some bonus David Blaine pictures from May 7). Click on the aerial photo above (not one of mine) for a macro view of the Queensboro bridge and neighborhoods I visited along the walk.

NYT Economic Scene: Right for the Wrong Reasons: Why Galbraith Never Got the Prize

David Brooks column: Marshmallows and Public Policy

Saw the Harvard Sailing Team at the upright citizens brigade theater... definitely the funniest sketch comedy I've seen in a long time (saturday night live writers should take a few classes from this group).

Graph of mortgage payments as a fraction of income (nyt). I like graphs.

NYT Economic Scene: Red States, Blue States: New Labels for Long-Running Differences (on the Glaeser and Ward paper)

From the Mets to the Met...7 1/2 hours of opera in two days

Wednesday: Lohengrin. Thursday: Rigoletto

Mets vs. Nationals at Shea Stadium, a Russell Sage event in a far left field skybox. Mets win, 2-1.