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New Yorker to the core: Love Notes to NYC #6 – Resilience, Reinvention & Remembrance

  Twenty years on and the horror is still fresh. The confusion, the shock and the disbelief. The numb days, the solemn weeks, then endless months of pain after soot and ash rained down from breathtaking blue skies. Twenty years on and we will never forget the true NYC heroes of the FDNY, NYPD, the… Continue reading New Yorker to the core: Love Notes to NYC #6 – Resilience, Reinvention & Remembrance

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New Yorker to the core: a love note to New York City: #1: outdoor art on the lower Hudson Riverwalk

I'm one of those I'll always love New York, New Yorkers, not blind to its flamboyant flaws but too deeply in love with the Big Beautiful Apple to care. Yes, I've been privileged to travel some, but when the pandemic ravaged my city, the treasures still standing here took tighter hold of my heart. Broadway,… Continue reading New Yorker to the core: a love note to New York City: #1: outdoor art on the lower Hudson Riverwalk