Cinco de Mayo

So it’s Cinco de Mayo – a perfect day to celebrate and start a new blog.  This one will be about marketing, advertising, theater and because the City is the epicenter of all these businesses – New York.   Having lived in New York for over 12 years, but not consecutively, I have watched the city change for good & ill. I saw the decline of the Upper West Side from an esoteric, artistic neighborhood to the suburban shopping mall that it is today.  And whose big idea was is to destroy McHale’s, the venerable actor’s bar and film location, and replace it with that grotesque modern structure?  Brand New York makes a few missteps.   (More on brands in another posting.) On the positive side, New York is still the most lovely, energetic, optimistic center of the universe and I was always proud to say I was a New Yorker.