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Ready for the Storm A mandatory evacuation of our neighborhood sent me, my husband and our dog Shadow scrambling to the home of our friends Heather and George in Murray Hill. They extended an invitation that included said dog, despite their pint-sized NYC apartment and a jungle of plants brought in from the [...] Canned! Mr Potato Head When everyone seems to have their hand out, how does a city food bank grab a New Yorker’s attention? I can’t think of a better way of engaging people in charitable giving than the CANstruction® competition. In CANstruction®, teams of designers, architects or engineers create exhibits using canned [...] At some unidentifiable point, after I lived in New York City a long while, I started talking about leaving. I would say, if it weren’t so cold in Wisconsin in the winter, I would have already moved back to Milwaukee. The sore point and source of my complaints always boils down [...]  The Cherry Blossom Blink and you miss them. Cherry blossoms bloom for only a week, but that week bestows upon me a glorious view from my apartment window in Battery Park City. Americans associate cherry blossoms with Washington DC and the annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Tidal Basin. Most of the thousands of cherry blossoms the Japanese gave the United States in 1912 were planted in DC.You also can find cherry blossoms in several other areas of the United States, including San Diego, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. And some ended up here in New York, and a few outside my window. But this 18th floor window isn’t the first to afford me a view of cherry blossoms. Growing up on an army base in Japan, I could see a single cherry blossom tree from my window. The small tree didn’t hide the chain-link fence and the gravel field beyond, a field of broken tanks, row after row of tanks waiting for repair. Continue reading Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) Bloom Down in Battery Park City, as in much of downtown Manhattan, the wind is on steroids. Strong, and stoked by tall buildings and narrow streets, the winter wind saves its best work for west of the big highway where the Hudson River adds its two bucks.On any given day, the air feels at least [...] |
photo by Kate Mortell 
silkscreen by Nigel Robson 
photo by Robb Kloss 
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