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I am in agreement with @ lapsangsouchong's comments above. (He's much more diplomatic about it than I intend to be.)

When I walk home, past countless stoops with people hanging out, I feel A LOT better if I can see they're not drinking. Most drinking starts out innocently enough, but there's really no telling how it might end. Which is why it's best to keep it out of public view. It just creates that much more potential for problems to start.

"I do care about having the right to socialize and form intercommunity relationships..." -- and you need alcohol to achieve this? By the way, were you inviting your neighbors over too, so you could form those "intercommunity relationships"? Or were you just drinking with your buddies?

"I'm hoping that our judge will interpret it in the same way that I do and thus introduce a legal precedent that makes it absolutely clear that you can indeed drink peaceably on private property, even if it's in view of a sidewalk. Do you not see the merit in that?" -- and do you not see the potential for harm in it? Are you really so self-absorbed?

This isn't an ego-game, but sorry to say, your entire article reads like one. There's a smugness to it that makes it all but unbearable. By all means, let's cite the J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt Legal Precedent, allowing people to drink on their stoops if they damn well want to.

NY is a city of over eight million people. This ain't Kansas. So, welcome to the world. There's just one caveat: it does not revolve around you.

My Wusthof bread knife.

Freshly ground, made in a French press, with a bit of half & half. Heaven.

Roast chicken, simple and tasty, with crispy skin and juicy meat. Put your feet up while it's in the oven, then enjoy.

Friends don't let friends bake by volume.

300 grams of butter is only 10 tablespoons? Are you sure about that?

Georgio's Country Grill -- 9th Ave. & 53rd Street. Diner-type food, but much, much better. People who work there are very nice. They pay attention to the food and to the customers.

For a good quick slice with no fanfare -- Fat Sal's, 10th Ave. & 50th St.

I can't believe you included Le Bernardin on that list without mentioning reservations. In fact, I can't believe you included it at all.

My "vegetable patch" is the Union Square Greenmarket. (That's what happens when you live in a NYC apartment.) I tried to grow herbs in my living room, but I stopped because I don't get enough sunlight. The plants had good leaf growth, but the leaves contained no flavor; they need sunlight for that. :(

Can't anyone write an article about Passover without bashing it first?

Chocolate mousse.

Sullivan Street Bakery, hands down.

Crispy brown-butter chocolate chip cookies.