Thinkin' NYC 40 years ago.
Thoughts regarding New York City (and life) - from a 20some year old native New Yorker, living in Chicago at the time - from an article about a certain ZaZa Lipsoidic, some 40 years ago, in the Chicago Reader newspaper:
"Some days he finds himself thinking of slouching on back towards Gotham - 'although the machinery is really haywire right now, unless people start stealing from it, New York will just go on and on . . . sure there's garbage in the streets, and crazy old ladies and bums - they're not really harmful, there's just a million or so of them. It's the people in power who are harmful, because they still have the garbage in them.'"
The entire story/interview linked HEREHERE.
Geographical movement and my relationship with New York City:
Born on Avenue C, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1951.
Moved to Brooklyn (Bushwick) in my pre-teens.
A few years later to Parkchester in The Bronx.
At 17, briefly to Pittsburgh, then Chicago for 7 years (4 addresses).
Back to New York City - Manhattan for a couple years.
Then Brooklyn (edge of Park Slope).
A 6 month vagabondage to Europe and the Middle East.
A brief stay in upstate New York.
Followed by Vermont, for the next 23 years (5 addresses).
Back to NYC July 1, 2010.
Total years in NYC about 30, with hopes to add another 20.
"Some days he finds himself thinking of slouching on back towards Gotham - 'although the machinery is really haywire right now, unless people start stealing from it, New York will just go on and on . . . sure there's garbage in the streets, and crazy old ladies and bums - they're not really harmful, there's just a million or so of them. It's the people in power who are harmful, because they still have the garbage in them.'"
The entire story/interview linked HEREHERE.
Geographical movement and my relationship with New York City:
Born on Avenue C, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1951.
Moved to Brooklyn (Bushwick) in my pre-teens.
A few years later to Parkchester in The Bronx.
At 17, briefly to Pittsburgh, then Chicago for 7 years (4 addresses).
Back to New York City - Manhattan for a couple years.
Then Brooklyn (edge of Park Slope).
A 6 month vagabondage to Europe and the Middle East.
A brief stay in upstate New York.
Followed by Vermont, for the next 23 years (5 addresses).
Back to NYC July 1, 2010.
Total years in NYC about 30, with hopes to add another 20.
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