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Comment on Twisted Spitzer or Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Hubris by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:21:30 +0000

The Spitzer revelation was certainly a shocker.
An interview with a Village Voice editor posed a number of questions, most pointedly: Would this have happened with a Republican governor & who are the other nine clients? In addition to feeling for Silda Spitzer & their daughters, I wonder when this actually began & if there was more to it than a man with power. After more than a year of attacks from NYS Attorney General Cuomo, NYS Senate Majority Leader Bruno & NYC Mayor Bloomberg + a hostile press … this reads more like a political suicide.

Comment on LimmudNY at the Nevele Grande in the Catskills by Matthew Grob

Matthew Grob — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:59:09 +0000

I’m so glad that you enjoyed your experience at Limmud NY 2008!! As one of the Steering Committee members who helped plan the conference, reading your entry helps reinforce that we are doing things right. What you wrote epitomizes so much of what we stand for, especially diversity and choice. That there were some sessions that did not appeal to you but did appeal to others demonstrates that you can’t please all the people all the time, but more importantly that such diverse options were available (in spades!) and you chose to try something that was different than what you are accustomed to. It is with this variety of backgrounds and perspectives that we weave the rich tapestry that has become Limmud NY community. And you are right as well when commenting that you can’t always rely on hotel review sites - the Nevele suited our purposes for a clean and comfortable environment for 870 attendees. Thanks again!!

Comment on 535 West End Avenue at 86th Street: the real value of closets by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:39:17 +0000

SPSA is currently housing an even smaller activist neighboring congregation, West-Park Presbyterian, which among other things, incubated God’s Love We Deliver, a nationally recognized meal program for homebound folks. It’s being in the midst of wealth belies the fact that it is around the corner from two well-regarded SROs with supportive services. Will this UWS tradition continue to flourish? Anyway, your scribbling & Kay Karpen reply led me to make an online contribution to the WS Campaign. W 86th St is also home to the 1st “shul with a pool” & the flagship congregation of Judaism’s Reconstructionist movement & the Bard Graduate Center for Design, a degree-granting institution & gallery. For many years, Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer lived & wrote in a landmark turn-of-the-century apartment building a 1/2 block east of SPSA,
caddy corner from one of the SRO’s & across Amsterdam Ave from West-Park. The neighborhood’s mid-1980s denizens & some of its now lost hang-outs are rendered in ceramic tiles inside the 86th St subway station beneath Broadway - the work of Brandeis HS students made possible through a then visionary community board. Publisher William Randolph Hearst occupied the top floors of an apartment building 1-block west on Riverside Drive & Edgar Allan Poe parked his family two blocks south. All of thid just scratches the surface in the very immediate environs of one eclectic, Victorian eclesiastic, official NYC landmark on a 5-block long east-west thoroughfare. Oh yeas & if one looks west, there’s the Garden State!

Comment on 535 West End Avenue at 86th Street: the real value of closets by Lily

Lily — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:26:16 +0000

Thank you! KKarpen is the minister at St Paul and St Andrew’s.

Comment on 535 West End Avenue at 86th Street: the real value of closets by K Karpen

K Karpen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:16:54 +0000

Great post, Lily. Extell has reached out to the food pantry with a one-time gift–a good beginning. So perhaps your suggestions will go somewhere. Who knows? We all need to re-think what it means to be neighbors in these strange and changing times.

Comment on The Flushing Remonstrance by J. K. Gayle

J. K. Gayle — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:31:47 +0000

Great post! At a time of international wars and during the U.S. presidential campaign, it’s great to have such an inclusive and pluralistic history connected right now to a wonderful and specific place (i.e., NYC). And around the Flushing Remonstrances, Congregation Shearith Israel seems to be a fascinating place: paz, peace, ‮שלום

Comment on Jock Soto on film and in person by lily

lily — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:15:20 +0000

He has a charismatic smile, and is a fabulous dancer!

Comment on Jock Soto on film and in person by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:17:29 +0000

such a great face!

Comment on NOT a New York City Jewish Deli by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:38:26 +0000

Time to clink a glass of Dr Brown’s to the Second Avenue Deli! Their menu is enough to make one drool. OK, maybe not drool, but certainly it makes one very hungry. The deli’s lost historic site with the theater folk names embedded in the sidewalk has distressingly become another big bank branch.
Not one ATM dispenses a damn rugelah. The nerve of them!

Comment on Tagged in a “Meme”, a game of Holiday Bloggers Tag by Russell Bailyn

Russell Bailyn — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:24:25 +0000

Great article Lily!

Comment on Missed Appointments by Rebecca Wallace-Segall

Rebecca Wallace-Segall — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:28:48 +0000

“A life ended in mid-step or mid-sentence, with many missed appointments.” — Beautiful and poignant last line, Lily. And painful.

Comment on Missed Appointments by lily

lily — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:47:52 +0000

NYCGuy, it felt like Zero degrees of separation considering this is not a one doctor town. This is NYC. All staff and doctors in the office were upset with the news.

Comment on Missed Appointments by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:00:28 +0000

How many degrees of separation is that?

Comment on New York City Seasonal Street Arts by NYCGuy

NYCGuy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:58:52 +0000

That well plumbed menorah sitting in the dark probably belongs in a synagogue or museum in Providence which periodically celebrates its recovered downtown namesake river with WaterFire.