September 8, 2024

Sarah Friedland is a Disgrace

Brooklyn Views: Middle East Map

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Jerry Seinfeld

 

Kamala's First Interview

Breaking News...

Three Israeli Victims of the Allenby Bridge Attack

Pro-Hamas Agitators in Japan

Bird murder in Howard Beach

 

Jordan Celebrating the Killing of Three Israelis


Disgusting Conditions in Gaza Tunnels for Hostages

 

Dr. Ahmed Speaks about the Complicity of Gazans since October 7th

Hamas Fraternity Recruitment

World Media Ignore Massive Free Speech Protest in Brazil

 

September 7, 2024

When Israel walked away from Gaza in 2005

 

London now

 

Rescued Israeli hostage talks a about Alex Lobanov who was executed by Hamas

Rescued Israeli hostage Andrey Kozlov at the protests for the hostages in Tel Aviv tonight, speaking about Alex Lobanov who was executed by Hamas in Gaza last week 💔 pic.twitter.com/VxyvKt1A6g

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Messages of Love and Hope on a Freedom Tower Beam - New York Times

Messages of Love and Hope on a Freedom Tower Beam - New York  Times

The Heart in Darkness

Ten years ago, in December 2006, I went up to Battery Park to join with many other people in adding prayers and messages of hope onto one of the new steel beams that were one of the thirty supporting columns to be installed at the base of the Freedom Tower, now called 1 World Trade Center. This special beam was distinctively painted white. When I arrived I picked up a black magic marker and walked alongside the beam looking for some free space to add my message to the inscriptions of so many other people who had come earlier. There was very little space left on this 30 foot beam for my thoughts so I decided to squeeze in just the four names of my family "Allan, Liz, Elena, Rachel.'.

Over the following years the connection with that day in Battery Park and the unrelenting construction of the new WTC and Memorial Park and the entire renewal of the site faded from my mind. I didn't avoid lower Manhattan but the daily routine of a long commute bypassed that area and my thoughts. To me it became just another construction site among so many others that were sprouting up all over the city.  My visits to the Memorial Park ended after the three separate time I went with my daughters and my mother and sister. When I did find myself downtown I found that it was just an annoying, chaotic jumble of noise, crowds and detours. 

Now ten years later, FEMA, my current employer, was relocating its regional offices to 1WTC following many other companies that moved downtown. Those old 9/11 memories began to return as we planned our move. 

A month ago I entered the soaring lobby of 1 World Trade Center to start my first workday on the 53rd floor. When I found my work area I walked over to one of the large panoramic windows that was only a few feet from my desk.  I faced north … uptown.  Manhattan laid before me in all its shapes, colors and textures. The narrow ribbon of the West Side Highway meandered up and away and I was surprised by how wide the Hudson River appeared.  The Empire State Building seemed small and ordinary. Construction life was everywhere at the most dizzying of heights. But as I gazed out at this magnificent view I could not escape remembering that dark day almost 15 years ago…that bright fall day in 2001 when I was driving along the Long Island Expressway towards my job in Long Island City and suddenly confronted with the burning tops of both twin towers in the distance. The blackest smoke against the bluest skies drifting towards Brooklyn.

Now I stood and stared out of the window with the same view of the people who worked and died in at their workplace in the North Tower on September 11, 2001. I imagined their terror when they must have seen American Airlines Flight 11 just before it crashed into the north face. Just as I was doing today they had just begun a routine workday greeting each other and finding a place to hang their coats.  It was an uneasy, chilling feeling.

But then an extraordinary understanding released me from those awful thoughts from that day.

I suddenly realized that hundreds of feet below where I stood on the 53rd floor, deep in the ground, the same special white 30 foot steel beam that was covered with messages from ten years ago now stood permanently encased in tens of thousands of tons of dark gray steel and concrete that make up the base of this enormous edifice that I am now working in.  And at one end of that beam the four names of my family would still be there just as I had written them many years earlier. “Allan, Liz, Elena and Rachel” are now forever connected together and protected in a dark, but safe space, within a building that will last for many centuries.

Many years from now the grandchildren of my grandchildren will visit this site. But they will not know it as "ground zero;" but a magnificent plaza and museum, where you can hear the soft splash of the waterfalls and a quiet, somber place that tells a terrible story that happened a long time ago. They will stretch their necks to find the top of this building. They will probably say "Awesome." And they will be told by their parents about the four names of a loving family in an earlier generation and how those names ended up within these powerful walls. Maybe they will tell that story to their children and remember our names.

So each morning when it is still quiet, before construction has begun; and crowds of visitors and the lines for the museum have not yet formed, I walk from the subway between WTC 3 and 4 and into the wide expanse of the memorial site, past the two pools into the south entrance of 1WTC.  And I think during that short walk about the intersection of tragedy, hope, coincidence, renewal and most important, how four members of my family are now connected together every day within this place… forever.

As I looked north this morning I saw a bright blue sky with some wispy clouds on the horizon.  I looked for a plane but there was none. And as I turned away from the window, I looked down at the floor, past my feet, past the 53 floors, through the lobby and into that dark space where the white steel beam was beating strong. It is the heart and the spirit of this 104 story building that is now filled with the vibrant life force of thousands of people who work and visit every day. It is the heart in the darkness that will beat for generations.

I felt sure.  It felt right
Allan

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September 6, 2024

October Rain - Shulem

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Brothers in Arms


 

Star Player Sabotaged - Law & Order


September 1, 2024

October Rain

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August 23, 2024

Test post

Late afternoon view from One World Trade CenterLate

Late afternoon view towards Brooklyn Bridge from One World Trade Center, NYC

Build It Back: A Disgrace | www.rockawave.com | Wave of Long Island

Build It Back: A Disgrace 

Many of the alarming elements of the BIB audit are centered on payouts to consultants to the tune of $17 million, while many homeowners were devastated by the storm.

Del Shannon - Runaway (HQ STUDIO/1961)

Biking fun on the Coney Island Boardwalk

Neil Diamond Talks About "Holly Holy" Then Plays It (Live 1971)

What renders a showtune as timeless?


What renders a showtune as timeless? We break down the very best showtunes.
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July 18, 2024

Montague subway tunnel to open Monday, N and R ready to roll

Subway Tunnel to Open, Storm Repairs Finished - NYTimes.com

Subway service through a storm-damaged tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan is set to resume in time for the commute on Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website.
The N and R trains will start running through the Montague Tunnel, which has been closed since last summer to repair damage caused when Hurricane Sandy struck in late 2012. The tunnel runs under the East River between Court Street in Brooklyn Heights and the Whitehall Street station near the southern tip of Manhattan.
The reopening of the tunnel will come a couple of weeks ahead of schedule: The authority had said it would be ready by October.
Despite what would seem to be good news, the authority was reluctant to share information.
Adam Lisberg, a spokesman for the transportation authority, declined to comment on the matter, which was reported by The New York Post.
But the Trip Planner function on the authority’s website gave away the plan. It estimated that a trip on the R train from Court Street in Brooklyn Heights to Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan would take about four minutes on Monday morning. On Friday, that trip would have taken at least 22 minutes and would have involved a transfer from a No. 2 train to a different train or a bus.


Still, the resumption remained a secret in City Hall. A spokesman for Brad Lander, a councilman who represents neighborhoods in Brooklyn, said he had no information about the plan.

The N train is scheduled to use the tunnel on overnight runs beginning late Sunday night, followed by the R in the early morning.

Gene Russianoff, the chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign and a regular rider of the R train between Brooklyn and Manhattan, said he had not been notified that service would resume on Monday. But he welcomed the news.

“It will make my commute less horrific,” Mr. Russianoff said.

For more than a year now, he said, he has been taking the F train to Jay Street and switching on an often overcrowded platform to the A train to get to his office near City Hall.

“The R train is a train that at least has a little breathing room,” Mr. Russianoff said, adding that he looked forward to finding a seat at least occasionally.

His colleague Cate Contino said she was “ecstatic” about being able to ride the R to work again and no longer having to switch train lines at Canal Street.

“This is great if they’re opening two weeks early on such a massive project,” Ms. Contino said. “That’s something to be lauded. This is a good job well done.”

FEMA Plan Would Free Up Billions for Preventing Climate Disasters - The New York Times

Coney Island Mermaid Paradermaid Parade

Only two more months till the spectacular Coney Island Mermaid parade

Brooklyn Half Marathon 2014 (#BrooklynHalf) is largest in nation with 25,587 finishers


Lots more photos to post but here are a few to start.
Thousands raced down Ocean Parkway to the Coney Island finish line


 




Breaking Waves on Coney Island

Watching the waves break upon the shore at Coney Island

Amazon wins federal approval to begin testing package delivery drones

This undated image provided by Amazon.com shows the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project that Amazon is working on. (AP Photo/Amazon)Amazon wins federal approval to begin testing package delivery drones | abc7news.com

"Amazon's delivery drones will be flying soon.
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved limited research and testing for the company's Prime Air delivery service.
Amazon had to seek new approval because last month the FAA approved an aircraft Amazon is no longer testing.
The CEO's vision is to deliver packages from the warehouse to your door in less than 30 minutes."

Future of coney island boardwalk is certain...not wood.







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Prospect Park celebrates 150 years

Prospect Park opened to the public in 1867.Prospect Park celebrates 150 years with events, renovations | am New York

A Brooklyn without a Prospect Park? Fuggedaboutit.
Brooklynites are ringing in the new year just as Prospect Park, the borough’s crown jewel, is ramping up to celebrate 150 years as a place to relax, play and experience nature. In fact, the sprawling 526-plus acre green space still serves many of the same functions it was originally designed for.
Created before Brooklyn was officially part of New York City, Prospect Park was designed and constructed from 1865 to 1895 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux — who also designed Central Park. The park, which opened to the public in 1867 before construction was complete, was designed for many of the same things it’s used for today.

Damn...another Millenial

Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2016

Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2016

Not as much skin as earlier parades but still as much fun,

Becky and Abboud 69th anniversary


Becky and Abboud 60th wedding anniversary VIDEO!

"SCHINDLER'S LIST" IN THE LARGEST EUROPEAN SYNAGOGUE: XAVER VARNUS & CS...

lSchindlers List

Incredibly moving...and the faces are the notes.

June 5, 2024

Portland Schools promote

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