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Mulberry Street, near Chinatown. By Paul Goldfinger © Sept 2013.

Mulberry Street, near Chinatown.  By Paul Goldfinger  Sept 2013.  Click to enlarge.

 

Little Italy has been fading away for years. Yet you can still take a food tour there and visit family businesses that exist after more than one hundred years.

On Columbus Day,  the Italian-American community is celebrated —-Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.

 

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL BOYS AND GIRLS CHOIR   “The Lord is my Shepherd”

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Central Park c. 1970. Paul Goldfinger photo. NYC Street Series. ©

Central Park c. 1970. Paul Goldfinger photo. NYC Street Series. ©

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor  @Blogfinger

 

When I see horseback riders I think of cowboy movies from my childhood or adult cowboy movies like “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”  I remember “High Noon,” Roy Rodgers, Mexican sombreros, and Indians.  I don’t think of equestrian competitions like they had in my last hometown–Chester Township.  I had a neighbor on my street named Bill Horsey, and whenever  I rode by his house, I whinnied, sending my sons into hysterics.  As someone with a funny last name, I found humor in Bill’s dilemma. These days the “boys” are less likely to laugh out-loud at my jokes.

There was a horse-drawn wagon in Ocean Grove which we all enjoyed seeing clopping down Main Avenue.   But that horse is gone now.

And finally I think of the dopey Mayor of New York City trying to put the horse-drawn carriages out  of business.   He lost that battle, and one quaint memory of old New York remains.

I recall taking this photo from one of those stone bridges in Central Park. The two riders were moving along briskly on a wintry day, and it seemed nostalgic even though I never rode horses except one time at Kutscher’s in the Borscht Belt where I got knocked off my mount; but that’s another story.

Here’s a song which evokes another horsey era, recalled by a Jewish guy from Minnesota—–Robert Allen Zimmerman,  aka Bob Dylan, with “Romance in Durango.”

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August 2014. NYC Street Series. By Paul Goldfinger © click image to enlarge.

August 2014. NYC Street Series. By Paul Goldfinger    Click image to enlarge.

 

RICHARD BURTON  from Camelot.

 

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175 Fifth Avenue. Like Ocean Grove, this triangular skyscraper is on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo by Paul Goldfinger © Digital print from film negative.

175 Fifth Avenue at Broadway. Like Ocean Grove, this triangular skyscraper is on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo by Paul Goldfinger © Digital print from film negative.

 

THOMAS NEWMAN AND THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC.   “New York”  (instrumental) from the movie Little Women

 

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Washington Square, NYC. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Washington Square, NYC. Paul Goldfinger photo.  Click to enlarge–it is essential.

 

GATO BARBIEIRI  “Last Tango Girl in Black”  from the film the Last Tango in Paris.

 

 

 

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Central Park at 5th Avenue and East 85th Street. Paul Goldfinger photo. Silver gelatin print. © Blogfinger.net

Central Park at 5th Avenue and East 85th Street. Paul Goldfinger photo. Silver gelatin darkroom print. © Blogfinger.net  Click to enlarge

 

 

JUDY COLLINS:    “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?”  From the album Christmas in New  York

 

“Across the morning  sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it’s time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?”

 

 

 

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Fifth Avenue at Central Park. August, 2014. © Paul Goldfinger photo, NYC Street Series . Click to hear the melody better.

 

LEN CARIOU AND THE ZIEGFELD MALE CHORUS (with a wonderful staging of the Irving Berlin song)  from the  London  production of Ziegfeld  (about the Ziegfeld Follies—flapper era review.) Some of you may know Len Cariou from his role as the father in Blue Bloods (CBS)

 

Ziegfeld Folllies. Internet photo. Click to enlarge.

 

Ziegfeld girl. 1920’s. Internet photos (PG did not take this photo)

 

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Central Park c. 1972.  Paul Goldfinger © 

 

 

haiku by George Held.

 


Winter lingers—–

fingers of spring still wearing

woolen gloves

 

ANITA O’DAY

 

 

This haiku was originally published at Haikuniverse.com ©  2019

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Washington Square Park, April 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo ©

Washington Square Park, April 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo ©  NYC Street Series

DR. HOOK

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Mid-town. NYC Street Series. 2014. Paul Goldfinger photograph ©  Click to see these college grads.

AVENUE Q CAST:  The thing about being a talking head is that you don’t need clothes from the neck down—basically just a hat.

PAUL ANKA:

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You saw some of Helen Levitt’s street scenes, but here is a shot from Eileen’s  family album–Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

c. 1950. Photographer unknown, but we think it is Bernard Harkavy. Eileen is big sister.

c. 1950’s.   Photographer is Dad—Bernard Harkavy.  Eileen is big sister. Hope is little sister.  There is some drama going on, but what is it?  Re-post from Blogfinger 2013.  

 

THE MILLS BROTHERS:

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Union Square Park. NYC. By Paul Goldfinger ©.

Union Square Park. NYC. By Paul Goldfinger ©.  Left click makes it  a little bigger.

 

CHARLIE PARKER  (with strings)  from the Complete Master Takes album.   “April in Paris”

 

This song was written by Vernon Duke and Yip Harburg  (wouldn’t it be great to have a name like “Yip?”)  for a Broadway show in 1932 called “Walk a Little Faster.” The Count Basie and his Orchestra version (1955) is the most famous (“one more time; one more once.”)    The Basie version also was featured in the Mel Brooks movie “Blazing Saddles” where it is transplanted to the old west.   —Paul Goldfinger, music editor @Blogfinger

 

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Greetings from Manhattan. Walking and poetry are both rhythmic activities that I have tried, in several poems, to bring together to create a unified effect. Here is “A Couple” from my 2010 poetry collection, Brief Intervals of Harmony.

 

Best wishes,

Charles Pierre

 

Upper East Side, New York City. August.2014, By Paul Goldfinger ©

Upper East Side, New York City. August.2014, By Paul Goldfinger ©  Click to enlarge

 

 

A Couple

By Charles Pierre

 

That man and woman walking side by side

almost glide together through the evening,

parting the oncoming crowd with a singleness

of rhythm that erases the differences in height

and stride. Palm to palm, with fingers entwined

and arms swinging between them, they keep

their shoulders straight and eyes fixed forward,

talking without turning aside, letting the words

swirl around them in a cloak of conversation.

His left to her right, they reflect one another,

both wanting an equal partner but remaining

self-possessed, the emptiness of darkest space

less a threat than if each were facing it alone,

though their need for connection goes mostly

unconfessed: a solitary pair accustomed

to the same pace, limbs moving in unison

through the rush of wind leading night’s advance.

 

 

Frank Vignola plays Gershwin.   “Our Love is Here to Stay.”

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