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Bronx Pinocchios of the Borscht Belt

by 12/10/2022

Schenk’s Paramount HotelMy home base in the 50s was Wyatt Street, essentially, a one-block middle class Jewish enclave in the [...]

Washington Square, A Place Apart

by 12/03/2022

Image by Aurélie Bernard WortsmanOn January 23, 1917, artists Marcel Duchamp and John Sloan, poet Gertrude Dick, and three actors [...]

Welcome to New York City

by 11/20/2022

The atmosphere seemed different coming home. You could feel it stepping off the train. A March chill penetrated our light [...]