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By Dennis O’Connor | www.VillageFishmongerNYC.com I recently sat down with Village Fishmonger’s resident fishmonger, Ben Smallman, to get his take on seafood and why he loves what he does.  He’s currently working as a tournant at Danny Meyer’s The Modern restaurant in Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Village Fishmonger: Why do you like to work with…

Text and Photos by Gloria Dawson Riverkeeper’s patrol boat glides along Newtown Creek in New York City. Like a cruise ship captain leading a voyage through environmental hell, Phillip Musegaas points out oil slicks, the sewage treatment plant, and the huge pipes where raw sewage flows into the creek every time it rains. He notes…

  By Justin Nobel, author of Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle Have you ever spent 14 hours straight on the New York City subway? I hadn’t either, but one day while living the hectic life of a freelance magazine journalist I had an epiphany. I had spent the summer of 2008 reporting in Nunavik,…

Talk about the call of the wild—you can now track endangered North Atlantic right whales with a new iPhone and iPad app.