I’m aware that some people cringe at the thought of attending a literary reading. Otherwise sophisticated people have even been known to sneer at the very term reading, particularly when prefaced with poetry, in that voice Giuliani used when he described Obama as a community organizer. But hear me out. Readings—prose, poetry or both; with […]
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I went down to the Surrogate’s Courthouse on Chambers Street to check out an exhibit called New Visions of Old New York, which promised an interactive 3-D map of New Amsterdam. Spending a little time in the 17th century seemed like a great idea here in the 21st, which is feeling more and more like
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One day last August my husband and I took a walk in Gansevoort Peninsula Park and came upon the exercise station. We’d been spending our evenings on the sofa in awe watching teeny, hipless, shimmering Olympic gymnasts launch themselves into space and twist and somersault up there, and leap onto bars several stories high and
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Recently my friend and neighborhood-preservation hero Zack Weinstine of www.savegansevoortnyc.org shared a link to a feature-length documentary I didn’t know he had made. It’s called “Strange Days Diary NYC” and it’s his chronicle of year one of the covid pandemic, most of it shot around the far West Village, where, like Zack and his wife,
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Over the years I’ve spent a whole lot of time at our two Village library branches, and as a result I sometimes end up making friends with the librarians. Lately I’ve gotten to know head librarian Emil Allakhverdov, who’s been at Hudson Park since 2017. He’s an Armenian who grew up in Ukraine, and he
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