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Feeling Old in a Good Way
Last night I Netflixed (it’s not quite renting, is it?) a film I haven’t seen since it was on TV when I was a kid: The French Connection. Filmed in 1971, it really brought back my childhood: the so-called “New … Continue reading
The Highest Form of Patriotism
I went through Union Square today as the protest march was coming back down Broadway (it made a big circle). Can’t say what was happening in Midtown but the scene there was peaceful and optimistic.
Today’s Clips
David Brooks, the junior member of the minority party on the Times Op-Ed page, had me nodding along in his column about John Kerry this morning. His basic point was that Kerry’s Vietnam-era speeches were passionate and full of conviction, … Continue reading
From Brownout to Blackout
Our power problems in Brooklyn culminated Friday afternoon and evening with five separate transformer explosions and fires along Vanderbilt Avenue, the first around 4.30 in the afternoon and the last about 11.30 at night. Voltage went from just under 100 … Continue reading
Brooklyn Brownouts
The low-voltage problem continues in most of western Prospect Heights. Street lights are dim, grocery store freezers are way too warm (soupy ice cream, just the right thing for a hot and muggy night) and the elevators in most of … Continue reading
The Brooklyn Museum
We went over to check out the new entrance plaza for the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, and we were absolutely thrilled. It’s one of the best new public spaces in the city, and a rarely successful modern addition to a … Continue reading
Segregation, Alive and Well
Clyde Haberman writes this morning that most big cities continue to be “about as blended as a bottle of single-malt Scotch,” and quoting one of the last lawyers still alive who argued the cases that became Brown v. Board Of … Continue reading