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I didn’t pay much attention to Zim Scorpio at first. The container ship was far away — little more than a dark outline on the water. I’d passed plenty of freighters in far worse wind and felt I had enough breeze and time to cross the narrow Kill Van Kull from New Jersey toward Staten Island. But midway across, something [...]
I am a New York City booster. And I travel its streets with all its positives and negatives crammed into my head, coloring everything I do, everything I see, everything I feel. I am very familiar with the city. And I love the sheer unpredictability of it, the Mad-Hatter kinetic energy. The zany atmosphere, the zany people, the zany sense [...]
Walking toward the Staten Island Ferry on my way to work, I noticed a boat departing, when it should have been arriving. Being in the exact spot it would normally be, but headed in the wrong direction, it was, at first, disorienting. I checked my watch: 2:53. “This is not good,” I thought. Making my way down the ramp, I [...]
