Through the Hourglass
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
A Municipal Tragedy
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Acupuncture or bail? My acupuncturist is located on Baxter Street in Chinatown, his office wedged between storefronts that are occupied ...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Teaching History to Immigrants
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One of many tours created by Frank Bergen Kelley Frank Bergen Kelley’s mother descended from Dutch burghers. They peered from the fr...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Of Time and the Blizzard
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Snowy day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The day before my father died last March, I moved in close to his right ear and asked h...
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Snow and Ice
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"It was a lithographer's dream of winter" (from Letting Go by Philip Roth, 1962) Photo by Claudia Keenan http...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The Laugh Died on Her Lips
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Socializing in the Tenderloin District, 1900s (still from a film by Thomas A. Edison) At dawn they spilled onto the narrow sidewalk...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Father Knickerbocker's Ball
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The old-timers never forgot the winter of 1917. At night the rivers froze like Colonial times, and during the day the frosty air hel...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Joan of Stones
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Ready to charge across the Hudson River, an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc overlooks Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan. I...
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