In the year 2000 the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), a Boston think tank which studied the problem of post-consumer paint waste,...

Wiki defines “Upstate New York” as the area of the state lying north of the New York City Metropolitan area. Though most New Yorkers I...

It’s said that when Cleopatra was called to meet Mark Anthony in 41 BCE, the Egyptian queen traveled to meet the Roman general on a...

It’s hard not to notice what the paint business has done to my countenance! A fully-receded hairline and wrinkled forehead the most...

In 1936 my grandfather Jack Lipton would have been working 72-hours a week behind the counter at Tremont Paint. The second of...

Ask a dozen New Yorkers, “who has the City’s best bagels?” and you may get thirteen answers! For me the top bagel is H & H. But it's a...

Like most independent paint dealers I speak with these days, Augusta Paint and Decorating is setting sales records. Owner Leslie Merritt...

When I sold my two New York City-based paint stores Tremont Paint in October of 2019, the timing had me looking prescient. Mere months...

My nephew Andrew and his soon to be better half Erica are scheduled to get married on October 16. Their third attempt at walking down...

The September 11th we were supposed to have in 2001 included Panda's first day of pre-school. Panda of course is my now 23-year-old...

It seems that with each mention of Benjamin Moore CEO Dan Calkins, my readership goes up. To me, Dan is more than just a good luck charm;...

When the guest in room one, my fianceeic Gaetana’s son Michael, checked out of Hotel Lipton to spend a week away from the madness, we...

The former home of Tremont Paint's Broadway location is practically no more to me than a post office box where I collect correspondence...

Mount Mansfield, the tallest mountain in Vermont, peaks at 4395 feet above sea level. The east side of the mountain, which towers more...

As my 23-year-old daughter Buck Wheat left the house, she took the keys to my ragtop Jeep Wrangler, the day's weather making it imperative according to the girl. I agreed on the condition that she leave the tank full, slipping her a fifty as she swore allegiance to that task. I didn't get the fifty back either! My Jeep is not the only thing running on empty these days, as dealers I'm in touch with continue to complain about the exhaustive pace. Overcoming product and labor

The last time I bought a one-inch “chip” brush, they would have cost $.19 each and come in a box of 48. Chip brushes of course are the...

I began taking my daughter on road trips to visit the homesteads, birthplaces or burial sites of our nation’s presidents before she was...

On the 52 square miles of earth which my current hometown of Stamford, Connecticut encumber, there are 962 public roads. At least one...

When Buck Wheat comes to town, you get more than just entertaining dinnertime conversation. You get the dinner! Raised by parents who...

A summer night in the Bronx has a unique vibe. But it’s the smell you notice first! Looking to avoid the crowded trains and required...