A Paean to My City During a Pandemic
Just NYC and ME
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A Paean to My City During a Pandemic
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December 6, 2020
1964-65 World's Fair
<p>One of my earliest memories, possibly my first, is being at the 1964-65 World’s Fair with my parents in Corona Park, Queens. (The irony of the location’s name during the “Coronavirus” pandemic has not been lost on me.) I was barely two years old. It was a bright, sunny, cool morning. I was holding my parents’ hands, happy to be back at the fair again after a long wait. (The fair closed in October of 1964 and didn’t re-open until April of 1965.) I was looking up at the Unisphere, which I loved, and which I had told my parents I wanted to see again. So the memory is extraordinary because it includes not only the visual memory itself, but also the mental memory of previous trips to the fairgrounds in 1964, when I had not yet turned two years of age. As I gazed up lovingly at it, the sun glinting on its molded sculptures of the world’s continents, I was filled with pure joy and contentment, finally seeing my friend again.</p> <p>This “world view” of a two year old succinctly demonstrates one of the greatest gifts of growing up in New York — the awareness that there is a great big world out there with places to visit, people to meet, and experiences to be had — far beyond the world in which you live. I may have led a sheltered life in a lovely apartment filled with typical toys of that era — stuffed animals, dolls and Fischer Price pull-toys, but ever since I can remember, I was surrounded with the smells, sights, and sounds of the City that were far beyond the scope of daily life in our apartment. And I was filled with an awareness that this was a wonderful thing — which it is. Somehow, my two-year old brain was processing this information as I looked up at this great big globe.</p> <p>And lest you think I’m making this up — here is a picture of a mini-me at the fair, in my little frock, with my well-dressed Mother (oh for the days when one got dressed up for occasions!). I know you may be thinking “She just remembers this because she’s seen this photo.” I grant you that looking at this picture over the years may have helped preserve my own recollections, solidifying them in the deep recesses of my mind, but my memory is from a completely different perspective — from underneath the Unisphere — looking up at it from below with a sense of excitement and wonder. The world was out there to explore — but for the moment I was simply a happy little girl going to a fair, held lovingly by my parents and imagining what that world held in store.</p>
November 19, 2020
Introduction to Just NYC and Me (A Paean to my City During a Pandemic)
<p>Welcome to my blog. I’m thrilled you found it and I thank you for taking the time to read it, or listen to it, as the case may be. This space will comprise musings on life in my hometown — New York City — during this pandemic. From my childhood in the 1960s and 1970s to the 1980s when I attended college here, to the present, it will be part cultural history and part social observation on daily life in the Big Apple. </p> <p>Why the title “Just NYC and Me?” Because this is just the story of a lifelong friendship between two entities, which in this case happens to be between a city — my city — and me. There are numerous reasons why so many songs, books and movies have been written about this crazy place, but I think one of them is that New York City is a living, breathing entity all its own. It has a spiritual force that will knock you flat, if you don’t learn how to ride its waves of kinetic energy that vary in intensity depending upon where and when you might find yourself at any given moment. But figure out this secret, and the City will hold you aloft, giving you experiences you never imagined. It pulses and throbs and pushes and demands — and loves. And that’s why we New Yorkers, despite the grit, graffiti and grime, the cacophony, clangor and chaos, love it back, are loyal to it and live here — because it is our friend. So hop aboard my magic carpet (or in this case, the A train with an N95 mask securely affixed to your face), and come along for a ride. You might just be surprised by what you find.</p>
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