Archive for April 2023
From the Archives: Running on Railroad Time
In case you haven’t heard, I am still deep in book mode. May 1 approaches, and I am doing the revision hokey-pokey. (Put the right words in, take the wrong words out, but the right words, and you shake it all about.) While I turn myself around, here is a post for your amusement that…
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From the Archives: Madame Lenormand’s Fortune Telling Cards
I am still deep in book mode, with a May 1 deadline bearing down on me–I feel a bit like the heroine in a melodrama who is tied to the tracks and knows the train is coming through the tunnel ANY MINUTE NOW. (Don’t worry. I’m not waiting to be saved, though My Own True…
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Gertrude Whitney–A Guest Post by Rebecca Bratspies
Rebecca Bratspies is a longtime resident of Astoria Queens. When not geeking out about New York City history, she is a Professor at CUNY School of Law, where she is the founding director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. A scholar of environmental justice, and human rights, Rebecca has written scores of law…
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