Konstantin’s Weblog

So I actually managed to go out to the stores on Black Friday. To be honest, I expected more crowds but I am sure that the economy is taking its toll on retail. However, the economic crisis did not prevent the crowds from trampling to death a poor store clerk at a Long Island Wal-Mart. [...]

Today I had the privilege of visiting the United Nations with my Ukraine & the UN class. Prof. Kuchynsky is a former ambassador so he arranged everything. We spoke to two ambassadors, one from Estonia and the other from Belarus. Needless to say, I was much more interested in the Belorussian ambassador considering that its [...]

Well, its not even Thanksgiving yet but the big stores in Manhattan are already hanging up their Christmas decorations and they are nothing short of amazing. When I was walking home from my UN visit I walked down 5th Ave. and saw giant snowflakes down the side of one building, a huge bow on Cartier, [...]

So I managed to get away from Morningside Heights for a night to check out the art galleries in Chelsy and to specifically go to the exhibit opening of Taras Polataiko. What did I see? It was a room with white walls and with narrow slits all around in which you could see eyes (the [...]

So its been a couple of days since the big election and it should come as no surprise that New Yorkers were ecstatic about the results. I was walking around the Times Square area and every major network was camped out in different parts of the city. MSNBC was at the Rockerfeller center, CNN was [...]