Once our home in Staten Island
“How has the country changed in your lifetime?” My son Saqib asked me. Oh my! Where do I even begin? How about at the beginning….the sound I never thought I would hear in New York of the 70s…
Read moreNew York is a ghost-town
No, it isn’t
It’s boarded-up
No, it isn’t
I was chilled to the bone. The line outside Cooper Union University was not that long, but the doors hadn’t opened, and at 10:00 am that Monday morning, just standing in line, I was getting a full dose of ‘wind chill’.
‘With all the choices he had, why did the Mayor pick this rather small hall to give his public speech,’