This time, as we open the ancient New York City Street Necrology with its cracked, crumbling leather cover, a dogeared page with running, streaming ink and stains from lord knows…
July 2001
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At Forgotten NY, it’s been awhile since we settled into Thoreauvian mode and visited a part of town that in no way resembles the horn-honking, jolt-cola, cell-phone-yapping rest of town,…
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Paraphrasing the old Donovan hit…first there was a lamppost, then there was no lamppost, then there is… In 1999 we mourned the (premature) loss of this original Queensboro Bridge light stanchion,…
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Hart Crane never wrote poems about it, Sonny Rollins practiced sax on the Williamsburg, not the Manhattan, and Steve Brodie never jumped off of it. The Manhattan Bridge has always stood in the shadow of…
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A few years ago, a Clint character, Robert Kincaid, wandered Madison County, Iowa for National Geographic, shooting rustic bridges for a feature article, and met lonely housewife Meryl Streep in the…