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Between them

23Aug10

A man walked with his female lover north on Broadway, passing Victoria’s Secret on 85th Street, its Amazon-sized window photos of women in lace garments daring him and coaxing her. He was on her right as they walked and had his arm around her neck. With that arm his lifted his hand and pointed to […]

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The Verdant Bed

02Apr08

Lover: “How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.” Beloved: “How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.” Hard to grasp that this conversation, ostensibly between one of Solomon’s wives – a dark beauty – and the king actually points to the love between […]

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The “Silk Stocking District”

There are photos taken from across the street where I grew up, on the roof of the old 17 East 96th Street, and from my roof at 50 East, of two different U.S. presidents, FDR and Reagan, driving west in their motorcades. On Park Avenue one block away, when W was in town, they'd have to seal all the mailboxes shut so that no one would place an IED in one and blow him up. Clinton used to raise money down the street toward the park--as does Obama now--in a townhouse around the corner from a co-op on 97th and Fifth where Sidney Poitier got rejected by the mostly white co-op board because he was black. Clinton's Secret Service men would buy slices of pizza in the Greek-run restaurant below my apartment. They got hungry, just like anyone else would.
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