December 16, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

I’d like to dedicate this blog to my daughter. It’s her birthday today! Can you believe it? She’ll be 19. 19 going on 40. You know, my friends all often say, you have no grey hair why? Well, my kid lives in Texas. (Just kidding Sam.)

So I’m getting ready to go up to Albany. I was going to meet with the Governor, but it was changed to meet up with the chief handicap commissioner. She reports directly to the governor. It’s actually good I’m meeting this person. I think I’ll get more done working with her. The governor seems to be busy. I’m bringing up a bunch of petitions, the ones with comments. The comments really show that a decent sidewalk is needed in our village. What we have now is called a sidewalk, but it’s really a blacktop footpath. We need a sidewalk that’s accessible to everybody. You know, not just handicapped people, but the elderly, moms with strollers, everyone.

It’s good I’m meeting with the chief handicap commissioner as I want to talk with her about several other things. There needs to be more people working as home health aides. We gotta figure out a way to get more people helping people like myself. When you’re like this, you really want to be at home more, you know, so you have your own bed, have your friends stop by. Be in your own home. I’ve been in the other option, and believe me, it sucks. Anyway, let’s all try to figure it out.

Above is a photo of my daughter and I. She was about one in this picture. I’ll never forget. I was so nervous I didn’t know how to take care of a one year old, nor did I know where to take her on her first birthday. So, of course, I took her to a really trendy restaurant. But she seemed to have a good time. I didn’t have any drinks that night. Can you believe it? Oh wait. Can you believe I drank a lot? Anyway it was a fun night. She seemed to have a good time. And that bottle on the table - that’s hers - not mine.

Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

December 9, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present. I’m gonna presently dedicate this blog to my friend here, who’s writing this for me. She was in Hawaii for a week, so we didn’t blog. But I’d like to say “Welcome Back!”

I’m currently working on getting better sidewalks put in for people like me, the elderly, moms with strollers. You know. A decent sidewalk. Man, it’s tough. Talk about buracracy, but the good thing is, I have a meeting with the chief handicap officer of New York State that I’ll be meeting up in Albany. I was wondering why I’m doing all this, but then I figured out, it all gives me a sense of purpose. You know, before when I was an international fashion photographer, I was always busy trying to figure things out. My life seems kind of empty, you know, being in this wheelchair, and in the house, but now I have this sidewalk campaign and it gives me a sense of purpose. It seems simple, and sounds simple, but it’s tough to help a lot of people (including me). You know, this town is just growing and growing. My family has been here since 1968. We’re basically becoming an outer suburb of New York City. You know, like the outer Queens. We’re no longer the countryside, like it was in 1968. Hell, in the 1800’s this was all farmland. I guess we call that progress.

You know, our village is small. There are only like 2000 residents and most our income for the village comes from property tax. I’m learning a lot. There’s a lot to fix in this village and very little money. I hear this from the current administration and the previous administration. I almost feel like there should be a toll when people get off the train to visit our village. Anyway, wish me luck up in Albany. Should I bring my stinky dog?

Talk to you next week. Love, B. Nice

P.S. Above is what I’ve been working on. They’re more abstract images from my stock of photography.

September 2, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present. Man, can you believe it’s September already? What happened to our summer? Actually, I spent most of my summer working with the idea of putting in sidewalks. Can you believe I used to talk about models, now all I talk about is sidewalk?. Anyway, we definitely need sidewalks right on route 9D in Cold Spring, where I see people walking along the road like a scene from Dawn of the Living Dead. Can you guys please help me out? If you haven’t already, please sign my petition to put sidewalks in. I’ll give you a quick timeline: About 3 years ago, Route 9D destroyed my car. It totaled it. The back axel was shattered. I hit a pothole. It was a write off. And therefore, I have had no car. There’s no public transportation here. So unless I sit around and watch re-runs of Oprah, I get out on my power wheelchair to go to the store, the doctor, physical therapy, etc. But, if there’s bad weather, or if it’s too cold or hot, I stay home and watch reruns of Oprah. Now, one day, I went out on my power chair and because of what they call a sidewalk I almost flipped over with my power chair on top of me. Luckily, my health aide caught the chair. If I’d fallen over, I wouldn’t be writing to you right now. This chain of events is what’s gotten me started on this whole sidewalk thing.

We are getting traction though, with the town and the department of transportation and the village, but we need to keep pushing, so please sign my petition if you haven’t already, and please share it with as many people as you can.

https://www.change.org/p/sidewalk-from-boscobel-to-little-stony-point-online-petition?recruiter=1061324706&recruited_by_id=3cfbc520-6d47-11ea-854f-e10027829238&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&utm_medium=copylink

Or, the other alternative is you can buy me a wheelchair car. They’re only $70,000. Oh yeah, and I need a really hot chauffeur.

Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

P.S. If the link above is not clickable - please copy and paste. That’ll take you right there.

August 19, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

I’m presently trying to have put in a sidewalk between Boscobel and Little Stony Point here in Cold Spring, NY. It’s exhausting. I’m not into politics or anything like this, but this is tough, especially in my condition. I’m also stressed because August 18, yesterday, is my anniversary of my first brain bleed. It always comes up in my mind August 18, 2009. It’s the day this journey first started. Man, I tell you, I could write a book of what to do and what not to do. It’s been so long, to tell the truth, I’m getting a little tired of sitting down for 16 years.

I’m gonna leave it at that because I don’t really feel like blogging right now. I’m still focused on this sidewalk thing. If you want to see more, just go to my Facebook page: briandnice.

Above is a sketch my father did, Don Nice. He would sketch all the time.

Love and miss you all.

Oh yeah, and on the Facebook page is my link to my petition. Please share it and sign it if you haven’t already.

Love, B. Nice

July 22, 2025

Hi everybody! Happy birthday Paul! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present. I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my friend here. She came back from her vacation. I couldn’t blog while she was away, cause she’s the backbone of this blog and I couldn’t do it without her.

So I’ve been hard at work at getting sidewalks put in between Boscobel and Little Stony Point. That’s here in the town of Cold Spring, NY, USA. The sidewalk’s not only for handicapped people like me, but for mother’s with strollers, older people, people in general, people walking their dogs, kids coming home from school, walking to your doctor, walking to therapy, walking to get food. A sidewalk on 9D (that’s a state road by the way) is essential. My pitch is this, look, the city is growing. We’re becoming an outskirt of NYC. Not only that, but we’re supposed to be carbon friendly. It’ll be good for us to get off our fat ass and walk to the doctor (as you a see, I’m a little passionate about this sidewalk thing). My family has been trying to put in a sidewalk from Boscobel to Little Stony Point for about 10 years now. What has put fire under my ass is that I almost fell over in my power chair. I’m a little fired up because I’ve survived a lot in my life and I almost got taken out by a stupid sidewalk. A sidewalk not only has to be put in, but they have to be repaired as well (that’s the ones that are already in place).

anyway, I’ve been meeting with the town. We had a big meeting at my house. The State Senator was here, a few other people, and then the following week, we had a meeting with the Senator, a few mayors, someone from the Department of Transportation. Some progress was made, but I guess things have to be done in baby steps. I’m not used to baby steps. Actually, I’m not used to steps at all right now. Anyway, with help from a friend and mayor Kathleen Foley, things seem to be moving forward. I have an assistant who comes in once a week to help me do the things I can’t do. He’s been a great help.

The other thing I’ve been doing is I do little videos for the Philipstown Locals Facebook page. I do it about twice a week. I also got a celebrity friend involved. She’s gonna help me get a few other celebrities. You’d know her by name, but I’m not gonna tell you just yet. I’ll wait till it’s all a done deal. If anyone out there can help me, I need to contact Channel 12. The town of Greenburgh got sidewalks put in after 10 years of complaining and one death. I guess it takes someone to die for things to get done. I would like to expedite our sidewalk and get it done before someone does die. I live right on 9D and I see people walk on the road all the time. I say this over and over, but it’s just a matter of time before someone gets clipped.

Anyway, some of this might be redundant, but sometimes you gotta say things over and over before people listen.

On another note, I finally got my new car, thanks to my sister. She did most of the work. Thanks to my sister I have a new car. It’s sitting here in my driveway ready to be shipped off and converted to a wheelchair car. I can finally leave the house after a long long time. I go out in my powerchair, but it’s not the same as hopping in the car and going somewhere. I guess you call that “Freedom.”

Anyway, that’s about it for now. I’m all fired up now. This sidewalk thing has really gotten under my skin.

That’s about it for now. I’m gonna cut this short cause I want to hear about my friend’s trip. Talk to you guys next week. Love and miss you all. Love, B. Nice