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Has The Covid Worm Eaten The Big Apple?
Back in March, just before the pandemic, I walked down Broadway to Soho in New York City. It was an unusually hot, sunny day and the streets were packed with people. Something told me I
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The Tower of Freedom
Above is a photograph of Manhattan taken from the 64th floor, the sky lobby, of the new One World Trade Center. The tower replaces the twin towers that crumbled on 9/11/2001. Ground zero of the
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Bernie & Company are Looking Impatient
“Oh, he is such nice man,” a young girl on a scooter said while we were standing on Fifth Avenue. As with all the streets that lead to the park, the last stretch of Fifth
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Hands Off My Old Cans
Their job description: Scavenger. They have been there for years, going from street to street from trash bin to shop to bar to restaurant. They collect the empty glass and plastic bottles, the aluminum cans.
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New York’s Ticket to Heaven
A short wire in early October 2014 made me shoot out of my comfortable chair. For no particular reason, I felt that the news of a Chinese insurer buying Waldorf Astoria, the world’s most prestigious
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Horses That Elected NYC Mayor Are Getting New Stables
During the 2013 election campaign he had promised they would be banned, but instead the Mayor of New York City has proposed building them a new palace within an already overcrowded Central Park. In addition
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Traveling Poems
They are your travelling companion. They are on the same train you take every day. No matter which line, which subway car. They are there, but not always easy to spot. Sometimes a big man
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New York, The Capital Of The Parking Culture
It’s Thursday, and my car is parked on the side of the street that needs to be cleaned by the New York Department of Sanitation. The street cleaner is a small, fast-moving truck with rotating
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It’s Sunday, Time For Bagel!
Last month’s death of 94-year-old Daniel Thompson opened some old wounds and memories in New York. Up until 1960 every bagel made in the city had been a union bagel. Protecting strict Jewish tradition of
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The World’s Capital Of Waste
How does New York – this mega city – collect trash with no dumpsters on the sidewalks? This was one of my first practical questions when I settled in the Big Apple. The answer I
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