Posts Tagged ‘Yonkers’
A bookish boy returns home
Yes, I was a bookish boy. And I was a baseball boy, first baseman and outfield in the Park Hill Little League. That’s why, when I was 9 years old and discovered the majestic old main branch of the Yonkers, N.Y., Public Library, at the corner of North Broadway and Nepperhan, I naturally gravitated to [...]
Filed under: Book talk, books, DiGiovanni, Fiction, writing, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: "Rip", books, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carnegie library, childhood reading, New York Giants, New York Yankees, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Nodine Hill, old Yonkers library, Yonkers, Yonkers Public Library
Night (and day) of the iguana
Seen on the street in Yonkers this morning, right there in plain sight, right there in the gutter: a BIG dead green lizard, which (not being a lizard expert) I’m guessing was someone’s escaped or discarded pet — perhaps an iguana. I looked at the dead lizard and had an epiphany…a realization…an awareness… I thought: [...]
Filed under: Humor, Nature, Pets, Yonkers | 4 Comments
Tags: iguana, lizards, Yonkers
Little Sarah Palin
Some of you have asked if I was surprised when Sarah Palin became governor of Alaska and then ran for vice president of the United States and then became a Fox News commentator. Was I surprised? You betcha! I mean, who wouldn’t be surprised? After all, this is little Sarah Palin, the cute and spunky [...]
Filed under: Humor, Politics, Sarah Palin, Yonkers | 2 Comments
Tags: Fox News, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, satire, Yonkers
Be it ever so humble…
Why does it make me just a bit melancholy to read that the old Mulford Gardens public-housing projects in Yonkers, N.Y, is finally being demolished? Because I grew up in Yonkers. And because I lived in the Mulford Gardens complex with my parents and my sister — we moved there when I was four years [...]
Filed under: DiGiovanni, Yonkers | 11 Comments
Tags: Ashburton Avenue, Getty Square, Grant Park, housing projects, Hudson River, Mulford Gardens, New York, Nodinee Hill, Oakland Cemetery, Palisades cliffs, public housing, Saw Mill River Parkway, St. Jospeh's seminary, Westchester County, Yonkers
Huckleberry friends
Yes, I’m sentimental. For instance, I just heard Bruce Springsteen’s “Independence Day,” in which a son is telling his father that he’s leaving home, that it’s the only way to end their constant quarrels, that maybe the problem is that they’re too different from each other — and too much alike. So I found myself [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Music, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: "Breakfast at Tifanny's", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Independence Day", "Moon River", "Uncle John's Band", Andy Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, buckdancer's choice, Grateful Dead, Huckeberry Finn, Mantovani, Mark Twain, Nigger Jim, Nodine Hill, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yonkers
Pax et bonum
Approaching the winter of my discontent, I find myself thinking more often about the springtime of my life, and yes, you’re right, that sounds disturbingly like one of John-Boy’s mawkish opening voice-overs for “The Waltons,” and so I’ll get a grip right now and get right to my point: I never knew the name of [...]
Filed under: Religion, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: "Pax et bonum", Catholic schools, Latin Mass, Linden Street, Missionary Franciscan Sisters, Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Anthony, Park Hill, St. Francis of Assisi, Waverly Street, Willow Street, Yonkers
OK. I admit it. My name is Nicholas D. and I am addicted to continually checking to see how many daily, weekly and monthly visits have been recorded by the ever-increasing legion of fans who faithfully read World of Wonders. OK. I’m indulging in a bit of hyperbole. “Legion” might be a stretch and “fans” [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Politics, Religion, UFOs, Vermont, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: Alaska, Apocalypse, Bob Dylan, Book of Revelation, death, Federation of Light, Pete Seeger, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, UFOs, Vermont, Yonkers
Meltdown
Sad news: Tom Carvel’s first ice-cream stand is closing. It’s in Hartsdale, N.Y., just over the border from by old hometown of Yonkers, N.Y. According to the Associated Press: The suburban New York store where Tom Carvel launched his ice cream empire is set to close after more than 70 years. Current owner Abdol Faghihi says he’s [...]
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Tags: Ardsley, Carvel, Central Avenue, Ferncliff Cemetery, Fudgie the Whale, Hartsdale, Saw Mill River Parkway, Yonkers
Lest we forget
This is the latest in a series of essays titled “Man Has Premonition of Own Death” How is it possible to forget when your own father died? I’m not talking about the day or the month. I’m talking about the year! I can never even remember what year it was when my father died! Thank [...]
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Tags: DiGiovanni, Nick DiGiovanni, obituaries, Yonkers
City of Gracious Living
When I think about my old hometown of Yonkers, New York, or return to visit my family still living there – usually crossing the Hudson on the Tappan Zee Bridge and making landfall at Tarrytown, hometown of Rip Van Winkle — I somehow come unstuck in time, like Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim. Henry Hudson’s ship is [...]
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