Sunday Rich Friends and Relative Enemies

By Paul Sankey Published on February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM

Brrr, It’s absolutely freezing here in New York city, the ruddy East River has only frozen (see above) and the streets are a bleached hellscape of black-iced pavements walled by dirty ice-snow piles topped with backed up garbage and passing dogs. Everything is frozen solid, the wind outside is howling, here in Brooklyn Heights above New York Harbor. Oof. Source: Weather.com, NOAA Back to natgas in a second, but as a historian, I would be …

Sunday Coming in Hot… and Wet, and Cold

By Paul Sankey Published on March 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM

Delayed last night in Boston by severe storms and a ground stop at La Guardia, eventually we were the last flight to leave Logan Terminal A, and barreled into New York like a bucking bronco, especially for those of us at the back of the shuttle. We landed screaming hot, through the driving rain to what felt like a skidding stop. Welcome back to New York. Freezing! Three weeks on the road, with a final …