new york city
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the rest of America sits on porches, but in summertime in New York City people sit on stoops. they’re front-row seats on life here. the city-version of the old-time rocking chair. it’s where you people-watch, and hear stories, gossip, and some good rumors. we don’t have stoops where I live but other sections of Brooklyn…
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my mom loves, really loves, this song. so much so that she named me after something sweet and surprising she heard in the lyrics. (it’s at the 1:07 mark.) it was released in 1970. she couldn’t have known then (she wasn’t even born) how much the words, hold on, it’s gonna be alright, you’re gonna…
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you can take a walk through East New York, or Navy Hill, or Greenwood Heights, and one person will think these are really frightening, dangerous places and rush right out of there. and someone else will take their time and explore the history of those neighborhoods, sample the unusual foods and sounds on the streets,…
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when I started out, I decided I was going to get a gig at a famous club in New York City. its purple neon beacon, hanging three feet below the century-old pressed-tin roof, blared two city blocks, a kind of downtown iconography. this was the kind of place where you could just feel the years,…
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