Selected Essays & Reviews(click to download and enjoy)
• “When New York City’s Lights All Went Out,” Christian Science Monitor
• “Farewell Hotel,” USAirways magazine
• “It’s Time for Preservation on the Wrong Side of the Tracks,” Architecture
Selected History Features
• “The Pipes are Calling,” USAirways magazine
• “Blood Ties,” New Jersey Monthly
• “There’s No Place Like a Name,” New York Daily News
• “No Turning Back,” USAirways magazine
Selected Railroading Features
• “Woolen Wonders,” Classic Trains
• “A Moveable Mansion,” Victorian Homes
• “Doing the Locomotion,” Navigator
• “The Wreck of the Federal,” Passenger Train Journal
• “The View from the Train,” Adweek
Selected Travel & Place Writing
• “Parisian Secret,” USAirways magazine
• “The City at the Nation’s Front Door,” American Heritage
• “Peachy Keen,” American Road
• “The Riviera of Dreams” New Jersey Monthly
• Saltair and “The Carnival of Souls” American Road
• “Waxing Eloquent”: Behind the Scenes at Madame Tussaud’s U.S. Airways Magazine
Robert’s “Perspective” Department in Adweek
• The puzzling case of Erno Rubik’s cube
• How Canada Goose jackets got cool
• The story of the Magic 8 Ball
• How Sony’s Walkman changed music forever
Selected Business Features
• “Something in the Air”: How stores use scent to get you to buy more
• “The Exceptionally Good Taste of Danny Meyer”
• “Who You Calling Gay?”: A history of homoerotic advertising
• “Lucky Chang”: A Q&A with Chef David Chang
• “Colorful, Quirky, Classic”: At home with Jonathan Adler
• “American Aesthetic”: The Shinola story