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This is Jeopardy: Remembering Art and Alex
by Marissa Piesman 12/20/2020Neighborhood: Bronx, Featured, Park Slope, Rockefeller Center
Alex Trebek, who hosted Jeopardy for thirty-seven seasons, died on November 8th. My connection to him and the show was through Art Fleming, a prior host of the show, who got Alex the gig. Let me explain. As a child, I was quite the nerd. I could recite the U.S. presidents forward and backward at […]
Christmas Balls
by John Reidy 12/16/2018Neighborhood: Featured, Woodside
I came up the stairs from the subway. The cold air on Queens Boulevard blew hard. I turned and looked back down to see where my sisters Sara and Carol were. I was relieved to see them coming up towards me. I’d been lost before and it wasn’t fun. Behind them was my dad. […]