Wonderful column! Interesting and informative. I've signed up to get weekly updates from "For the Record" . Thank you Alexandra.
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JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Focus on the crocus
On this wintry day;
Winds may be cold and raucous
But merely a spring delay.
Focus on the crocus
On this wintry day;
Winds may be cold and raucous
But merely a spring delay.
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This might be your best column yet, Alexandra. I've clicked on more links this morning than I ever have before. I would have enjoyed touring Surrogate's Court with you. Great subject: New York City. Thank you.
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"Mr. de Blasio’s plan also calls for creating about 90 additional homeless shelters over the next five years . . . ."
As I've noted before, the causes for homelessness range from the elderly's inability to keep up with costs of living and middle-class couples' sudden bankruptcy due to medical costs, to the begetting of six or twelve children despite having been on welfare from the age of 15, and untreated and perhaps untreatable mental illness that compels people to push subway riders onto the tracks or to stab pedestrians as they walk to work.
When 90 homeless shelters are built throughout the city, depending on whom New Yorkers find living next-door to them, Mr. de Blasio won't be speaking to the middle class anymore: A lot of them will have left.
It's one thing for neighbors to be otherwise functional people who are temporarily down on their luck, and another thing for them to be uncontrollable, criminal, or determinedly feckless with behavior to match.
In the 1960s and 1970s, when subsidized, dysfunctional families were given Section-8 housing and introduced into middle-class, clean areas, the buildings they were placed in, and then the blocks, and then the neighborhoods, went downhill fast. Our relatives and family friends left only when their apartment buildings had become so foul that to stay was folly.
De Blasio had better watch his city's tax base.
As I've noted before, the causes for homelessness range from the elderly's inability to keep up with costs of living and middle-class couples' sudden bankruptcy due to medical costs, to the begetting of six or twelve children despite having been on welfare from the age of 15, and untreated and perhaps untreatable mental illness that compels people to push subway riders onto the tracks or to stab pedestrians as they walk to work.
When 90 homeless shelters are built throughout the city, depending on whom New Yorkers find living next-door to them, Mr. de Blasio won't be speaking to the middle class anymore: A lot of them will have left.
It's one thing for neighbors to be otherwise functional people who are temporarily down on their luck, and another thing for them to be uncontrollable, criminal, or determinedly feckless with behavior to match.
In the 1960s and 1970s, when subsidized, dysfunctional families were given Section-8 housing and introduced into middle-class, clean areas, the buildings they were placed in, and then the blocks, and then the neighborhoods, went downhill fast. Our relatives and family friends left only when their apartment buildings had become so foul that to stay was folly.
De Blasio had better watch his city's tax base.
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This was a great read. Well done.
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Nets dethrone Kings
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"Hair forecast: Pre-spring fling."
There is rarely anything truly new under the sun. That forecast is an exception.
There is rarely anything truly new under the sun. That forecast is an exception.
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Yes! I LOVE the hair forecasts! Very unique and always brings a smile.
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Thanks for a really great column today!
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The artichoke files show that as silly as we think leaders are today, there's some equivalent item even for a legend like La Guardia!
Tune of New Attitude
(cardio warm up)
No it ain't no joke
Can't find a New Artichoke
Served warm, served cold
Either way he said it can't be sold
He was extreeeeme!
He put a hold on that food
Says we can't have it battered or stewed
Or served with sour cream
You spend some time in the stacks
You're certain to say
The Mayor's back then could be as nuts as today
You'll be amazed the city didn't go broke
You'll be shocked at some words the mayor spoke
But listen to that La Guardia bloke
Don't get a New Artichoke
Fry up an egg, mix flour with the yolk
Get mushroom soup, for a really good soak
No no it's no joke
Can't get a New Artichoke
Repeat cardio warm-up
Tune of New Attitude
(cardio warm up)
No it ain't no joke
Can't find a New Artichoke
Served warm, served cold
Either way he said it can't be sold
He was extreeeeme!
He put a hold on that food
Says we can't have it battered or stewed
Or served with sour cream
You spend some time in the stacks
You're certain to say
The Mayor's back then could be as nuts as today
You'll be amazed the city didn't go broke
You'll be shocked at some words the mayor spoke
But listen to that La Guardia bloke
Don't get a New Artichoke
Fry up an egg, mix flour with the yolk
Get mushroom soup, for a really good soak
No no it's no joke
Can't get a New Artichoke
Repeat cardio warm-up
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oh, Freddie :)
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Jeanne Marie - it could have been much worse. It was almost going to be a Hatikvah parody for the Governor's trip to Israel, but this seemed less silly!
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Freddie, nahhh :)
it's all good! ( & I LOVE silly )
it's all good! ( & I LOVE silly )
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I see it is still around!