Category Archives: weather

Storm Warnings For Sandy

October 28, 2012 – 11:03 am

The wind is light over the rooftops of Fort Greene, as the city prepares for Hurricane Sandy’s landfall late Monday night. Mayor Bloomberg has announced the closure of the MTA’s subways and buses at 7PM on Sunday night to prevent people getting stranded by the storm surges into low-lying flood plains such as the Rockaways […]

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My 5 Top Autumn Songs

October 27, 2012 – 6:47 pm

My favorite autumn songs are; AUTUMN LEAVES by Cannonball Adderly’s SOMETHING ELSE To view please go to the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPWA6Ds9FHw AUTUMN LEAVES by Nat King Cole To view please go to the following URL AUTUMN IN NEW YORK by Billy Holiday To view please go to the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS3ZTVeqJjA&feature=fvwrel URGE FOR GOING by […]

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Split Sky

September 28, 2012 – 9:16 pm

At the age of ten I sat on our roof during a summer electrical storm with my older brother. The sky looked like the beginning of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Unlike Kansas Boston rarely offered such a dramatic show of weather. My father yelled for us to come inside. We thought we knew better and […]

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9/11/12

September 11, 2012 – 11:10 am

There is no smoke in the noon day sky. Jets skate the flight path down the Hudson. People around New York go about their business. It’s eleven years since 9/11 changed America by taking away our rights and giving many of us new fears. Not me. I’m only scared of those who fear more than […]

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Dark Chocolate City

July 2, 2012 – 4:01 am

The funk group Parliament released CHOCOLATE CITY in 1975 to celebrate the racial minority becoming the majority in major cities across America such as Washington, D.C., Newark, New Jersey, Gary, Indiana, Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia, and New York, New York. In recent years their majority has been challenged not a whites will rise again […]

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