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CitySketch – Essex House
Construction on the Essex House on Central Park South began one day after the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression. Two years later the hotel opened but since luxury hotels don’t exactly thrive during severe economic downturns, it was only open for a year before the government’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation took Read more
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CitySketch – Central Park Tree
After spending the last few years’ worth of lunch hours in Bryant and Madison Square Parks, Central Park is overwhelming, like opening the closet door of a studio apartment and finding it leads to a Bavarian castle. The trees are bigger. The rocks are bigger. The sky is bigger. The people who share the space Read more
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A Kind of Cloud
I’ve always felt a kind of cloud Surrounded me on all sides but one I could always escape by going down I could shrink and hide inside myself Behind closed lips and eyelids I could concentrate on denial Hide shock with laughter and disgust with a smile I never knew where to put my fingers Read more
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Comes Love
Comes Loveis a jazz standard composed for the Broadway musical Yokel Boy, by Sam Stept, with lyrics by Lew Brown and Charles Tobias. The play debuted on July 6, 1939 at the Majestic Theatre on 44th Street and ran for 208 performances. The Phantom of the Opera is playing there now, and has been since Read more
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