I called my sister to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She has four daughters and nine grandkids. “I know this might sound crazy,” I said, “but I’m really glad Mom is gone and not here for this.” My sister said that she was thinking the same thing. We would be so worried, even though our […]
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“Show me what democracy looks like.” “This is what democracy looks like.” The call and response chant rang out loudly as thousands of protestors filled 20 blocks of Fifth Avenue on a chilly, rainy afternoon. The massive action in New York City on April 5 was part of the nationwide Hands Off mobilization. It was organized by
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On a beautiful spring Sunday, March 23, I was not having brunch outside. I was in Abingdon Square Park watching my neighbors stage a Die In to protest cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. Senior citizens lay down on the asphalt in front of the Doughboy statue holding tombstones and playing dead. Others
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On Saturday March 29, ACT UP staged a powerful protest as hundreds of angry New Yorkers marched through the streets of the West Village and the Meatpacking District. Billed as ACT UP 38th Anniversary Action: Death by 1000 Musk Cuts, the event started with a rally at the AIDS Memorial Park, where a speaker led
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The week after Trump’s inauguration my weird dreams started again. I dreamt I was at BMCC, the community college where I used to teach. I was sitting in a room with other faculty getting ready to grade entrance exams. Suddenly this woman got up and sat down at a piano in the corner and started
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When I first moved to the West Village, I wondered why people were clogging up the sidewalks on Perry Street and taking pictures in front of this beautiful brownstone. Then I learned the exterior of 66 Perry Street had been used for Carrie Bradshaw’s home in the popular HBO series “Sex and the City.” Since
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I’m on a field trip to the Cloisters with the senior center. I have not been here in 50 years, like before I moved to New York. It’s so quiet and meditative here inside a medieval monastery. I love this atmosphere and feel transported back to the Middle Ages. I’m time travelling back to an
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The New York Public Library is really bringing it all back home with its small but stunning exhibit Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912-1923. The tightly curated show, open until February 1, fills two rooms on the first floor of the flagship location on Fifth Avenue. If you love the Village and its history, don’t miss
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