For those who don't read New York Today, there are some especially interesting comments on the "Smoker in the City" Diary item by Madeline Berg over in the comments under the Wednesday "New York Today" column.
No, I'm not a shill for Ms. Berg; and the comments are as complex as the subject of that Diary item, since the NY Today today (Wed.) also discusses marijuana laws.
My Mom, now 90, has at times recalled the irony of the good times she may never have had, the true friends she might never have met, without smoking cigarettes, even though she stopped many decades ago, not all that long after the proof of its effects was in.
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That cop at the "Labor Day" parade? He is a union member...and should know that very few "workers" are in the Hamptons on the Real labor day, they are probably at a backyard cookout, or beach or park, before kids go back to school.--OR at the big Caribbean festival, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn!
The only workers in the Hamptons that weekend were serving food and drinks at the homes of the 1%.
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Love this! I've never seen this section before but will search it out now!
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Its Tuesday and I realized that I forgot to read the Diary yesterday. Gotta love new fangled stuff--in the old days it would have been in the trash. So Tuesday starts out brighter instead of Monday and not just because Florence has finally pulled out of here.
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Loved this! Do it again!
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Oh boy. This makes me miss my home town!
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Smoking in anytime is atrocious. Particulary in the hot summer when I have to stand behind you and your carcinogens blow into my lungs. Shame on you promoting a city wide epidemic.
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2 great stories, both well written.
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At UNICLO in SoHo, I purchased a white shirt with a Jasper John's American flag on the front. I wore it from the store under my blue blazer.
Two blocks or so away as I was passing Balthazar, a waitress wearing a T-shirt with an Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Can on the front stopped me at the door. She wanted to swap shirts right then and there.
I hemmed and hawed and hesitated, but finally gave in. She took off her shirt on the spot, and I just stood there dumbfounded looking at her!
Only in NY!
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@JLS, this brought to my mind wandering, constantly stopping, transfixed, through the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and wishing we had one just like it in Manhattan. (It would make NYC even better.)
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@Freddie: we do, it's called MoMA!
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@Chris, Yes! That's a part of what made me think a duplicate of the Warhol Museum belonged here!
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I lived in NY for 10 years back in the 70's - reading these vignettes puts a smile on my heart - thank you
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I lived in NY for about 10 years in the 70-80's - reading the vignettes in the met diary put a smile in my heart - thank you
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A young mother was holding a very fussy baby. She tried to calm her down by giving things to play on but nothing worked . Finally she pulled random things from her purse and was a credit card, the baby took it only to throw it on the sidewalk . I bent down to pick it up for her . You should have seen the scared face and a “I’ll get it” and a little louder “no no no ...please , hey ...I’ll get it!”. Then it hit me, she was white and I was black , she fought I was gonna run away with it??. Her face soften when I handed her the card and said : thank you so much, thank you, you’ve been so helpful ! I carried on to my destination . It would have been a good story if we were on the bus ...maybe ! Happy Monday, with dear diary makes it even happier !
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@BibyLavaBe
"It would have been a good story if we were on the bus"
I'd hear the Diary editor(s) actually work to make the entries' wordings paper-ready, but not sure how that process goes. How I loved seeing this here even in the comments, the way your important tale took me on a rollercoaster about not judging. And was brought to your mind by an actual story here.
Yours is a wonderful story that I think many of us need to hear, even if we feel convinced we don't have biases ourselves! Thank you for telling it.
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Hahaha!!! - great stories!!! Keep metro diaries were I can find them.
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I remembering last week's credit card being passed overhead and today the hardboiled eggs rolling around underfoot.
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