Last Chance! Win $100 to a Great NYC Jazz Club!

Just a reminder – July 4th at 11:59p EST is the deadline for entering the Scouting NY/The Jazz Session contest to win $100 to The Jazz Standard, one of the best jazz rooms in New York City! So if you’ve been thinking about entering, now’s the time to do it!

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How to enter? In 1958, 57 notable . . .

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A Very Strange House in New Jersey

It’s been a while since I last scouted in Jersey, but this past Friday, I found myself searching the Morristown area for a country road. I happened to turn down a residential street…

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…passing a handful of your typical upper class houses that can be found pretty much anywhere:

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Nothing particularly of note here…

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And then, I saw a very unusual home:

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What the heck is this?? It almost looks like the house is playing a game of hide and seek from the other houses, and just found the best hiding spot ever.

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Wile E. Coyote Spotted in Harlem??

I was driving down 110th Street the other day when I noticed an unusual truck up ahead…

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A Ghost House In Queens

This property was demolished in April 2013.

Growing up in Massachusetts, there was never any shortage of ghost houses: crumbling, hundred year-old derelicts that would fuel many a sleepover double-dog-dare (“I double dog dare to you to knock on the door!” “No way!” “Wuss!”).

One of my favorites was just a few blocks from my house, a gorgeous . . .

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T-Bone’s Flowers & Gifts

Sorry if it’s been a little quiet this week, I’m in the midst of a big apartment move. Ha, while I was cleaning out some old college boxes, I found this card that someone gave me the first night I was in New York. I was 18 and still scared to be out in the city at night, and all of a sudden, this . . .

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Contest! Identify The Mystery Location & Win $100 To The Jazz Standard!

Scouting NY and The Jazz Session have teamed up to bring you a contest with a really fantastic prize: a $100 gift certificate to The Jazz Standard in New York City!

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Not only is the Jazz Standard one of the best jazz rooms in New York, they also serve up some great barbecue from . . .

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