The first time I came to Nyack, I helped myself to some seeds. Years before we ever thought about leaving the city, I visited Nyack for an art show at the Edward Hopper House. A close friend had some sculpture hanging in the garden, I believe from rubberbands. It was his rubberband period. We [...]
From Sandra West, East Jewett. Long Island City is really a confederation of small villages and hamlets along the northwestern shore of Long Island. The name began essentially as a re-branding of Hunter’s Point then grew to eventually include Astoria, Ravenswood, Sunnyside, Blissville and other communities after the development of the Long Island Railroad improved [...]
Civility in a Hyperpartisan Era WNYC Radio: Andrew Reiner, who teaches in the Honors College and English department at Towson University and leads a seminar called "Mister Rogers 101: Why Civility and Community Still Matter,” discusses why civility and community are vital in the current political climate.
Just a stone's throw away from Blissville lies Sunnyside, a New York City neighborhood with an equally pleasant name. Sunnyside was the first place where I lived when I moved to New York. I was instantly enamored with the quaint beauty and quiet, local feel of Sunnyside. I decided to create a video of the [...]
Evidence of the Bliss Grocery on Northern Boulevard in Queens. Sent in by Lenox who's only comment was: Nirvana in the milk aisle, or namesake of Neziah Bliss?
From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Tuesday August 18th, 1936.
From The New Yorker, June 29,1987 FRENCHY AND THE PERSIANS By Calvin Trillin AMERICAN CHRONICLES about deceit in the antiquities business. Daniel Kohl, proprietor of Old King Kohl’s Antique Shop in N.Y., was a sort of rug-stealing… From The New Yorker Archives (Subscription Required)
