Author: Eric Levin

Eric Levin, New Jersey Monthly’s deputy editor/dining editor, is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Texas. His most recent show, "Vehicular," took place at the Majestic Theater Condominium Gallery in Jersey City in 2019. His books of photography include Vehicular (2016), Unscheduled Stops (2014), Pink's Peak (2013) and Souls Have Shapes (2011).

Studying Something on Academy Street

July 21, 2014

What it was, I have no idea. But Academy Street, Newark, is a one-way, as you can see, and he was facing the same way the arrow points. So maybe he was seeing the future.

Seen in: Plain Sight: A Jerseyan's Photo Blog

Not Exactly the Red Carpet

July 18, 2014

When the industrial carpeting is ripped from the office building hallway, abstract art is revealed. Or maybe the score for a post-serial chamber work.

Seen in: Plain Sight: A Jerseyan's Photo Blog

Yesterday’s Downpour

July 16, 2014

A furious drenching, yet barely any wind.

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The 25 Best Restaurants of 2014

July 15, 2014

Our annual list of the best restaurants New Jersey has to offer. You'll find some rising stars, and plenty of old favorites.

Seen in: Eat & Drink

Pipe Dream

July 14, 2014

A schnozz or maybe a smooch, but a beautiful meeting, or mating, of metal pipe and red brick.

Seen in: Plain Sight: A Jerseyan's Photo Blog

watermelons ShopRite Bloomfield

Watermelon Man

July 9, 2014

Do you remember the song, written by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock for his 1962 debut album and later made famous by Mongo Santamaría? Doesn't matter. Yesterday's temperatures in the 90s made it a day for watermelons, as in this huge carton outside ShopRite in Bloomfield.

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Riding Out the Repercussions

June 30, 2014

Adrift teen Tom Alison anchors this cautionary but invigorating novel about identity, culpability and class.

Seen in: Books, Jersey Living, Jersey Shore

Picnic, the Restaurant, is Coming Back

June 18, 2014

During its brief lifetime (2010-2013), chef Christine Nunn's Fair Lawn restaurant, Picnic, won accolades, including a spot on NJM's annual Top 25. This afternoon she will announce that she will open Picnic on the Square, in Ridgewood, in mid-August.

Seen in: From the Editors

Belly Laughs From the Bard?

June 1, 2014

Aye, many. And at the end, tears of joy, too. The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's new production of The Tempest keeps the signature sorcery subtle, letting one of its finest actors, Sherman Howard, give us a warts-and-all sorceror--Prospero--we can yet warm to.

Seen in: From the Editors

The Good Goodbye: On Love, Loss, and Living

May 20, 2014

A journalist's memoir reflects on the deaths of her husband, sister, mother and mother-in-law in the span of 17 months.

Seen in: Books, Jersey Living