tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85121842951686575422024-03-21T18:18:48.231-04:00NYC BitesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-10767358193374121732011-01-27T21:51:00.043-05:002011-01-28T01:07:03.117-05:00New York City's Snow Reaction PlanI have heard many people talking, and read the arguments of others going back and forth online, over whether or not the blasts of snow we have had this winter in NYC are the result of global warming.
I remember we had some pretty intense winters in the city back in the late 60's and in the 70's. My brothers and I and all the neighborhood kids were out playing in almost waist high banks of snow, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-17293134151415090742010-09-25T15:39:00.012-04:002010-09-26T21:15:11.348-04:00Time for Harvest & Fall Festivals in New York City
Photo: mommypoppins.com
The summer officially transitioned into fall, September 22nd, 2010, the autumnal equinox. But don't go running to get your flannels on. It's still flip-flopping, bermuda-shorts time in NYC. At 84 degrees those precious A/C's are still cranking on high and not ready to go into anyone's closet, basement or garage until Summer 2011.
Many NY'ers are tired of Mother Nature Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-60913241902819056792010-09-16T23:59:00.506-04:002010-09-19T23:51:00.435-04:00When MTA Doesn't Go Your Way & LIRR Falls Short: Tips for Surving the Commuting Storms in NYC
James A. Farley Post Office, NYC, built 1912, 421 8th Avenue, located between 31st and 33rd street. Firm of McKim, Mead & White, Architect
Herodotus beats the elements
You would think that the powers that be who are in charge of managing mass transit in NYC would have sufficient experience and preparedness to handle the inclement weather that bombards the city historically, throughout Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-80070422481081082832010-09-11T09:11:00.811-04:002010-09-12T02:52:29.144-04:009 Years Old: 9/11 Changes"It's the economy stupid." "It's the jobs stupid." "It's the Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives, Cuba."
"It's Communism." "It's Socialism." "It's Capitalism." "It's Castro, Chavez, Obama, Bush, Americans."
"It's the Chinese." "It's the Russians." "It's the Jews, Muslims, Christians, Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, Japanese."
"It's Men, Women, Teens." "It's the generation gap, gen X-ers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-69890340013900774402010-07-01T22:14:00.000-04:002010-07-01T22:14:36.794-04:00Summer DaysCrimson Curtains By Maureen Baraka Bonfante
Cool bursts push the crimson curtains forward.Like a parent readying a child for a full swing. First an inch, then six, fourteen, twenty.
Cool bursts push the crimson curtains forward. Holding them out generously, like Magi bearing gifts.A special summertime gift. For the count.One, one two, one two three.Fading memories of endless hazy, hot andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-38696598758646872142010-05-03T05:03:00.002-04:002010-05-05T07:56:50.268-04:00Steam, Clean, Press: A Dry Cleaning Story and Look at Two Great, Black Inventors Thomas L. Jennings & Lewis H. Latimer
HELP WANTED:
PRESSER/FINISHER
Experienced preferred.
(Will consider training bright beginner).
Inquire within.
Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jan. 01, 1944 http://www.life.com/image/72401375
"Should I?" "Shouldn't I?" "Should I?" "Shouldn't I?" Good thing I don't have a daisy in my hand. It would be pulp by now. Who Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-23797660681483688272010-02-15T22:13:00.019-05:002010-03-01T14:27:50.764-05:002010 Year of the Tiger: New York City Celebrates Chinese Lunar New Year
Gung Hei Fat Choi!
Congratulations and be Prosperous!
On Sunday, February 14th, 2010 in addition to exchanging satin-covered-red-lace trimmed boxes filled with chocolates and 101 ways to say I-Heart-You greetings, many NY'ers as others around the world were fire-crackering-in the first day of a 15 day long celebration welcoming in the Chinese Lunar New Year (also known as the "SpringUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-23998930473165261262010-02-13T23:09:00.003-05:002010-02-20T00:19:08.738-05:00NYRR: Run/Walk for Haiti February 20th, 2010
Mark, Set and Go for Haiti
By Maureen Baraka Bonfante
FOR OUR L-O-V-E!
AND FOR L-I-V-E-S!
HEARTS A-N-D FEET
With Rhythm and Sound,
Will pound pound pound.
Fast.
Fast.
Fast.
Step,
B-Y
Step,
B-Y
Step.
Start to
FINISH.
W E
A &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-29572372677626217722010-02-13T23:05:00.004-05:002010-02-20T00:21:01.889-05:00NYRR: Course est Marche Pour Haiti, 20 de Février 2010
À Marquer, Prêter, Partir Pour Haiti
Pour Maureen Baraka Bonfante
POUR L' A-M-O-U-R !
EST POUR LA V-I-E !
Les COEURS est PIEDS
En rythme est dulce bruit,
Battront-Battront-Battront
Vite.
Vite.
Vite.
Pas,
E-N
Pas,
E-N
Pas.
Du début á
Ligne d'arrivée
N O U S
C O M M E,
Un Seul
Grande Piston de Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-33185549222311808822010-02-08T01:10:00.002-05:002010-02-08T01:20:37.939-05:00Super Bowl XLIV: When The Saints Coming Storming In They Beat The Colts 31-17
The Super Bowl! ¡El Super Tazón!
By Maureen Baraka Bonfante
Salsa.
Nachos.
Guacamole.
Cerveza/Beer.
Jalpeños y
Coke!
On November 1st, 1966, All Saints Day, New Orleans' Football team was admitted to the NFL and in commemoration of the day christened the "Saints." Given given their record one wouldn't think that they had many saints watching over them causing their fans like Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-44278730615291649472010-02-07T16:41:00.005-05:002010-02-07T17:31:43.509-05:00Got a Quarter? New York City Apartment Dwellers' Weekly ChallengeNew York City tenants have come a long way from the days of tenement living in the Lower East Side during the late 1800's and the birthing of all things modern we enjoy so much like having a toilet in your home with the turn of the 20th century. "Daaa-aad! Troy has been in the bathroom for 20 minutes and I'm gonna be late for school. (sigh)" "Maria, Maria. Vamanos! Save some watar for d' Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-43478235156878100282010-01-24T09:05:00.006-05:002010-01-25T20:09:31.481-05:00Turbulence MixTurbulence
by Maureen Baraka Bonfante
Shimmy, Shimmy
SHAAAAKE!
Like a chicken cutlet
getting breaded in a zip-lock,
by a hungry man.
I am not big on the concept of fleshy, multi-celled organisms being enclosed in metal containers, in single unit or en masse and shooting out to the space above the clouds. "I can feel and be very close to the Creator from down here. Thank you very much!" Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-32376544596463061832010-01-18T21:13:00.019-05:002010-01-24T21:07:32.914-05:00Light A Candle and Pass Its LightCandles
By Maureen Baraka Bonfante
It,
burns.
Now.
For yesterday.
For todays and tomorrows.
Undulating,
like the gymnast's silk scarf in dance.
Flicker, Flicker. Sway.
Carried by and put out, by the the air.
Ignited. Igniting.
Apple, vanilla, cinnamon, lilac, orange, rose.
Wedding Day.
Birthday numero uno or one hundred.
Held in tribute or silent protest.
Power outages. Crises.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-87824471016034514842010-01-11T07:35:00.060-05:002010-01-24T20:43:35.451-05:00More than a Clown Nose
Once upon a time there was a spider, a frog, a boy or a girl or a princess of cinder, a family, a somebody-bodies or something(s) or other...
Some days just seem to take the form of a once upon a time tale or odyssey. They start with a protagonist (you) facing a challenge (major or minor), embarking on a quest in which you encounter many Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-11445980472706017362009-12-31T08:46:00.015-05:002010-01-17T17:36:36.836-05:00NYRR Emerald Nuts Midnight Run: Cheers to Good Health in 2010
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Above: NYC Artist Pedro Silva, Monkey Bars, Public Art
Left: Robert Rooney, Monkey Bars, (National Gallery of Australia)
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Growing up during the 60's, early 70's in NYC forced one to fish in the pool of imagination and invention regularly after school, during summer, winter and spring breaks. We called on one another to play, and knocked on doors Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-19244151566754878712009-12-27T09:25:00.002-05:002011-01-28T01:08:38.533-05:00Blizzard 2009, Just an Apparition
Right:
Bayside Diner's Snowman holds parking spot for guests.
(12/25/2009)
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Last weekend, winter's first blast kept many New Yorkers, like others in the N.E region, cozied-up in doors, and yesterday the second day of the long Holiday weekend 30+ mph wind gusts and heavy rains took center stage; belting, pelting us with more of the same Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-85566744738539168562009-12-24T15:32:00.000-05:002009-12-24T15:40:15.871-05:00Holidays' Spirit: Remembering Children
Top Left: A Bite of Holiday Laser Light Show at Grand Central Terminal
Top Right and Center: Bryant Park, December at Night
The biggest bow ever. Watch your step as you go out side. The smallest box ever hiding among the needles of the pine. Lot's of "ooo-ing" and "ahh-ing" and "awh-ing" and "WOW!" NO PEEKING. "I'm not peeking!" HoHoHo. HaHaHa, HeHeHe. "Far out!" "Oh my God... Gag gift!" PSYCH.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-19265427676111131512009-12-22T07:57:00.000-05:002009-12-30T07:58:24.829-05:00New York Cares!!
As the snow of winter's first blast is still among us, let us not forget that many New Yorkers are unequipped with the winter basic to be safe and warm- A Coat.
We all get into the spirit of Spring Cleaning and periodic spurts of getting rid of closet clutter. Take a moment to check and see if you have a coat to spare and bring it to one of the many pick up locations throughout the city.
***Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-47185404302367562192009-12-20T20:47:00.000-05:002009-12-28T07:35:30.267-05:00Sno-thing to do We had lots to do and sno-thing to do this weekend in NYC under a foot of snow, except chill indoors instead of being chilly outdoors, unless you were into the whole play in the snow or I have to dig out my car bits. Besides enjoying reading and music and ticking of items on to do lists it was a great weekend for a Family Film-Pick Film Fest. Scan the cable listings, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-23154030356498480542009-12-20T12:05:00.000-05:002009-12-20T20:58:44.128-05:00NYC First Snow Fun Wooooo!! Wooooo!! 9Am Sunday, 12 inches of snow later. The kids across the street are up early and away from their PS3's, X-Boxes, Ninentendo's and TV's, swapping joy-sticks and remotes for snow balls and sledding down the driveways. Bang, bang, thuck, crack, crack, cruck, scrape, scrape, chop, chop sound the shoveling crews juiced by Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama,"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-62490223940376694872009-12-17T05:00:00.000-05:002009-12-17T05:15:52.068-05:00Etch A Sketch Solution "Every time I move I throw things out and
start brand new, like an Etch A Sketch."
- A New Yorker Dude
Salvador Deli by Jeff Gagliardi
http://www.etch-a-sketchartist.com/
New Yorkers walk fast, talk fast and think fast. There just never seems to be enough time to get from point A to B to C to D to E to F, back to D and F and C with a full swing back to A. Time, time, there Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512184295168657542.post-15583743068613807592009-12-15T00:23:00.000-05:002009-12-24T11:11:43.097-05:00Coney Island Dreams Children screaming,
gulls screeching,
people passing drinks
and sandy sandwiches.
Chit chat, chit chat.
Delicious, warm salty water.
Splish, splish, SPLASH!
Cool Breeze blow drying my hair.
Circus.
Arcade.
Cyclones.
Cyclone.
Children's rides.
Boardwalk Karaoke.
Dancing.
One-two-three, one-two-three.
Un-dos-tres, un-dos-tres.
Fingers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0