About

The Downtown Loop is inked by an ex-doubledecker bus NYC tour guide, the best job in town, seasoned by 3,000 tours performed for 90,000 passengers.  Eight years of the Bloomy administration and the RNC at MSG and the Bailout and Occupy and the 80th birthday of the Empire State Building, the 100th of the Met Life Insurance Tower and the James A. Farley Post Office, both Beaux-Arts survivors at Madison Squares, the 125th of the Brooklyn Bridge and Broadway rag Playbill, the 40th of Stonewall, the 150th of Macy's, the 200th of the street grid, the 220th of George Washington's inauguration on Wall Street, the 400th of Hudson's first sail up the river, and the 20th birthday of the bull statue...

Andy McCarthy is a reference librarian at the U.S. History, Local History, and Genealogy Division at NYPL.

Writings by Andy McCarthy:

Brooklyn Historical Society blog.

Future Use, jots on information science.

THE CHISELER:
The Racket-Buster
From Broadway to Bombay: Marty Reisman
John Doe, alias "God"

Notes on a Bio-Bibliography: James Forman and the Civil Rights Archive at CUNY-Queens College.

The Shine Box, movies & TV writings.

Campus Whits, ideas journal for Queens College Student Voices writing project.

Alt Screen, movie writings.

The Roister Show, radio broadcasts at WQMC Queens College.