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1964, When All Was Fair

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    Welcome to the past: The fiftieth anniversary of the World’s Fair is the background for memories that I will share in a subsequent post. I was a High School student at the time, and the 1964 World’s Fair, housed in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, was the thrill of every visitor. The fair’s theme was “Peace Through Understanding,” its icon was a 12-story steel model of the Earth called the “Unisphere,” and it ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964 and April 21 – October 17, 1965. Admission price for adults (13 and older) … Continue reading →

The WTC Blogs: Part 6: The New World Trade Center, Its Story And Incredible View

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  We’re back! Click here to get to the TIME Magazine article with the incredible 360° GIGAPAN panorama of New York City. If you are not a New Yorker, you will get a better idea of the scope of the city, it’s hugeness, and the incredible job that was done to make lower Manhattan whole again. If you are a New Yorker, the same goes for you. Feel awe. Video: The TIME making of the gigapan photo:    

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On Bagels and On Selling Children

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    I thank my friend Joyce, who was the source of the following two articles, which moved me in different ways. The first is the story of bagel making in New York City. If you are from NYC–especially Brooklyn, you’re gonna LOVE this. If you are not from NYC, you’ll get an education. This is what real bagels are all about: The boil>bake process with NYC WATER. The bagel originated in POLAND and is considered to have Jewish roots. The Wiki page on bagels is fairly good.         I hope that left you sated and happy. … Continue reading →

Fascinating: Link to Article About Stuyvesant Town History

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  Lee Lorch click the link below Lee Lorch, Desegregation Activist Who Led Stuyvesant Town Effort, Dies at 98 The New York Times   In the early years of Stuyvesant Town’s creation, I was too young to know about, let alone understand, racism. My parents were original tenants in Stuyvesant Town, in lower Manhattan. It was developed to help alleviate the housing shortage after the end of WW II. We had a one-bedroom apartment that had a large walk-in closet. From the windows we saw windows and more windows. A reminder that we were all the same. We were all … Continue reading →

Fascinating: Links to Vintage New York City Photos And More

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    Click the links below for a treat– Forty-five Vintage Photos of Manhattan in the 1940’s Twenty-six Vintage Photos That Show How New York Has Transformed Since The 1970’s Forty Gorgeous Photos of Brooklyn in 1974 The Last Days of Sleazy Times Square in the 1990’s Some San Franciscans Waited in the Rain For 2-Day Old New York City Bagels (There is no such thing as a “bagel” outside of New York City. A “bagel” is a bagel if it is made with New York City water. Ask any New Yorker.) Most Amazing Sculptures By A Chinese Artist   … Continue reading →

Fascinating: Links to Articles on Anne Frank

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Anne Frank   I came across some interesting articles about Anne Frank and would like to share them: click below … Anne Frank’s marbles to go on display in Rotterdam Swiss man reintroduces his cousin: Anne Frank   Anne Frank’s Family: The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 items  

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NYC Photo Journal: The Brooklyn Hot Dog Tour

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    On the way to Brooklyn       The Brooklyn hot dog tour, ” Hot Diggity Dog,” was run jointly by Green-Wood Cemetery, a national landmark, and The Brooklyn Historical Society, housed in another National landmark. But we’re not talking dogs, we are talking DOGS: frankfurters, if you will. We did not go to Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island which is THE home of the hot dog and of its founder, Charles Feltman. More about him later.   We met at the Brooklyn Historical Society, heard an intro and were oriented, then hopped on the Green-Wood trolley to … Continue reading →

9/11 The Falling Man: The World Trade Center Blogs: Index to 6 part multimedia series (updated 9/13)

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*click the links *Lead-in: From Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan/A visual essay and a prelude a visit to the area triggers memories   *Part 1: Windows on the World Video: Building the World Trade Center Introduction George Willig, the wire walker Memory: dining at Windows On The World   *Part 2: Audio Walking Tour: A thousand pictures from the sounds “Featuring voice messages, interviews, eyewitness accounts, live music, audio artifacts–the elevators, revolving doors, the piano in Windows on the World…stories and sounds from the world Trade Center and it’s neighborhood.” Follow the map 102 facts   *Part 3: Poetry: Billy Collins/The … Continue reading →

A Slice of Life …

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The Lower East Side of Manhattan Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Are Highlighted     The following video is a segment of a PBS broadcast about Robert Moses and the post-war re-building of New York City. Mid-way, it features the development in which I grew up, Stuyvesant Town and how it replaced hundreds of tenement buildings and displaced thousands of people. It is interesting to note that the original purpose of the building of Stuyvesant Town was to provide affordable housing to the World War II veterans and their families. At this time the management has changed hands several … Continue reading →

566. My Son Evan In TIME Magazine

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Never would I imagine that my son would be featured in The Washington Post (internet and hard copy), National Public Radio, NPR, the BBC, Australian Radio and TIME Magazine (on-line and now hard copy, below), but here we go. Click on the pages to enlarge.   11 CommentsChronological   Reverse   Threaded reply exukbritbrat wrote on Dec 9, ’11, edited on Dec 9, ’11 I’m going to Superpharm tomorrow in the hope that this edition has arrived.  Then instead of standing in the aisle reading it i shall buy it!  Never underestimate your child!  Look who he has a parent!  Like mother … Continue reading →

305: Shea it isn’t so: Yankee Stadium is gone, now Shea, too….the end of an era.

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Sunday we attended the final Mets game that would ever be held at Shea stadium in Flushing (Queens, New York). It was a moving experience for Mr. Souci who attended the very first Mets game in Shea Stadium in 1964. The Mets played the Marlins and lost. The new Citi Field (seen in Shea’s background), will open next season and the old Shea grounds will revert to a parking lot. Some highlights: You will see the final game played against the Marlins; Marc Antony sang the national anthem; Glenn Close sang too–didn’t recognize her; Mr. Met did his usual thing: … Continue reading →

268. Part I : A Travel Log: From Bosco to Lip Plumper

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It’s an annual trek to the Berkshires, the mountains of Massachusetts, where culture thrives. A few hours drive to an uncrowded world dense with creativity, where I feel I get spiritually refreshed through art and nature. It’s worth it. But first, some fluff… 1.On our way to our first stop in Hadley, MA, we dipped into Vermont to get an up close view of The (famous) Vermont Country Store, where time has appeared to have stood still. You can wax nostalgic, rhapsodic, or however you wish over those perfumes you used to find at Woolworth’s in the ’50’s (Evening in … Continue reading →

78. Let’s Exchange Names

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I conceived this blog while on Astra Navigo’s site; his blog was about his home state, Oregon. I have never lived in Oregon, but I will always remember my first phone number: ORegon-3-9833.Before all digit dialing, before we lost our phone and geographical identities, before we got lost in digits and binary codes, we had telephone exchanges; they put you on the map, they gave you a reference point in the huge communication universe, which then consisted of… the telephone. It was sometime after “Upstairs, Downstairs,” when Hudson, the butler, would answer the ringing wall phone with ‘Halllooooo? May I … Continue reading →

136. Poetry Series: Harlem On My Mind: 4. Theft

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Shepard Hall, The City College of New York 4th in the series, Harlem On My Mind It was spring, it was warm, the weather was kind; events were not. Theft April 1968 Someone stole the gold Cross pen from atop my notebook.  It was the beginning of a period of suffering and transition.   Soon after, it was announced that The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King had been killed; we filled the mazes of corridors of Shepard Hall; it crowns the North Campus, the building that looks like a huge, regal, fortress of dark-bricked, chocolate cake, adorned with drips of … Continue reading →

[61.] The WTC Blogs: 4. Personal Response: The Aftermath

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. . . . . . . . . . . . The Falling Man No one is sure who he is, but it is believed he was a worker from Windows on the World; he was one of many who fell or chose to jump to avoid the inferno I The morning of September 11 I awoke from a dream, a strange dream. It was later than I would normally rise; I was on a teaching sabbatical and taking courses during the ’01 and ’02 school year. It was wonderful not having to get up at the usual 5:15 … Continue reading →

49. Freddy Osborn, Kansas City, 1936 Part II

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Yesterday I mentioned that something caught me at that exhibit and didn’t let me go; there were several front pages of  The New York Times   from 1936.  The first grabbed me, the second one hit me.  Here is the previous post. The pages both had large articles about Robert Moses opening a new swimming pool. However, on the first, in the lower left corner, was the following news: Hitler had decided that his army should no longer wear blue, the color of past oppression; hence, the Nazi regime decided to switch to green. And then I thought: if I could … Continue reading →

48. Robert Moses, My New York, and 1936: Part 1

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Last week my son and I went to the Queens Museum in Flushing, New York, to see a part of an exhibit in various museums in the city on Robert Moses.  If you are not familiar with Robert Moses, suffice it to say he changed the face and infrastructure of New York City and its environs.  He was referred to as the “master builder” of the city.  He was a visionary, who was born in 1888; he was a participant in the construction of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, he was influential in getting the United Nations established in … Continue reading →