Articles Tagged with #newyorknewyork
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The Brakes
There Will Be Blood
Wreck no. 1 was in Central Park. I plowed into a guy who looked like Jesus, if Jesus not only had a beard and flowing locks, but also rode a Bianchi...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick, Part Two
This morning I went to the Old Town Country Kitchen in Bath to get something to eat. Bath has a population of 268. It was the first incorporated town in North...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
St. Paul’s Church
I decided to visit the site last weekend because of an event commemorating the Battle of Pell’s Point, fought about a mile from the church on Oct. 18, 1776. It...
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Notes From #WallStreet
Meditations in an Occupation
I and the three students conversed. I asked Leo what he was reading. He said Crime and Punishment. I said, “That’s funny! I’ve just been...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Whose Fantasy Is This, Anyway?
That’s not my experience. In my home region of Raleigh-Durham, college basketball and college football are the main topics of discussion and in my transistor-delivered sports talk home...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Hamilton Grange
The weekend of Sept. 17 the Hamilton Grange was being rededicated to coincide with Constitution Day. I won’t condescend to tell you who Alexander Hamilton was or why he...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Los Tiempos Van Cambiando
The two obsessions merged in my head around midnight, on day 162 of the baseball season. I actually wasn’t in bed, but sitting at my desk listening to Steve...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Everyone Gets a Go
Rob in Bayside: “I have a friend who moved to North Carolina and every day he texts me or emails me saying, ‘Why can’t Teixeira hit...
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Crushes on Strangers
The Man of Action
I knew Thomas would have a plan. Thomas is a man of action, not a woman of romance and longing like me. I get a crush, and that is the...
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Gallery
Stellar
Animated images inspired by Carl Sagan that show humans made from stars.
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Late Night Sports Radio
The 5 a.m. Pugilist
Smith rolled his tapes often in the hours before daylight. There wasn’t sports radio back then—it wasn’t invented until WFAN launched in 1987—but...
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Opinions
Rising Up at Ground Zero
Construction continues at the new World Trade Center—as does criticism of the approved designs. But a look deep inside the new structure shows the progress so far has proven to be in exactly the right direction.