We had friends long ago who came to Cafe Crocodile for a private dining experience. It was once a kind of fancy restaurant speak-easy.
Our local Greek Orthodox Church houses a school. On election days, I have joined my neighbors at the polls.
Some blocks or fractions of blocks are more “authentic” than others. Brownstones and low rises hark back to an older, earlier New York. Art deco apartment buildings determine the design as probably from a certain era. Lately, there’s more glass involved. The tenements, now called walk-ups, survive even as demand suggests build bigger, build taller.
I knew next to nothing about Asphalt Green’s iconic Murphy Center til today.
Let me share my knowledge with you. Warning the link will enlighten you about 9 other special buildings around town.
Have you had that sensation that something is not quite the way it appeared last time you approached this particular place?
On that occasion, it was rainy and the scaffolding covered half the block. Today, there was a glare of cold winter sunshine.
Nonetheless, something was amiss. Well, okay, not amiss just different.
I would say that the change was unexpected as was evidence of its progress.
The truck onto which the scaffold bars were being loaded sat right in the sunniest spot on the block.
Water tanks are a feature of the New York skyline. Rosenwach is a big name in water tanks.
Today’s walk is a little different. It’s the path I would like my fellow citizens to take regarding good news.
The highlight above takes you to this headline: the U.S. economy is exhibiting solid growth. Let’s stay on this road for a while. We as a nation have so many exceptional values.
In my lifetime alone, America has moved forward on issues of social justice. We really had been trying. TFG and his spawn of hate have been a setback. I think we can get back on track.
Banning books and denying personhood are a detour that could derail our great country. Let’s avoid this calamitous curve in the road.
Drive sober.
Credit where credit is due- this is what Ratso Rizzo [Dustin Hoffman], cutting through traffic, says in Midnight Cowboy.
Walk with me