Lights over Manhattan
Having had to transfer at Queensboro Plaza, a station above ground linking the 7 Flushing bound subway with the Astoria bound North. It is an elevated subway station with the clearest unobstructed view of the great City of New York. The lights are lined up withinn a safe flying distance descending into the greater New York .
The neighborhood street lights are bright and the traffic everywhere seems so very determined. Manhattans skyline is with reach the CitiCorp Tower with it’s graceful slant is red abounding that this is the Christmas Season. Just beyond this tower is the Waldorf twin peaks, the first ever to be lit at night. Just aside these noble relics to a grander time stands The Chrysler Tower on the corner of Lexington Ave & East 42 St. This town is my home I’ve driven here for years, ran the streets, making friends finding a way, yearning for the greater change that would be almost unattainable in the asphalt jungle. It is the sky lights that I find myself glancing up at once again. From a distance there is harmony, yet there is the uncertain future that man dictates. May my Almighty God watch over this great nation this crowded city this troubled planet. Guide us this day lead us back into thy greater plan, on this the season of your birth.
~~Prospect~~
I once watched a documentary about people who visit New York City, and most end up staying, and the others dream about going back. My husband was born in Brooklyn and he has always wanted to take me to see the lights during christmas time. He has always said there is nothing like the lights during Chritmas in New York City. We have that on our list to do. Oh and welcome home!
Donna
Love and Light
Donna
Always wanting the very best for you good afternoon.
There is the sea of people that make our world go round.
Here in the centre of the world we are all eguals.
This great city reflects the very best of our human race.
With all it’s trials this `City Of New York` has resounding life. In this years end the people of our world all feel at home in New York City.
My heart soars I thive on the light!
~~Merry Merry Christmas~~
to you and all whom you hold dear
fondly yours
Jerry
The “EL” ! What an amazing idea, Huh Jerry! We had the Elevated trains there in Chicago as well when I was growing up and just to ride them was so much of an adventure! Better than Rollercoasters as far as I was concerned even then! Kind of scary. To me I always thought of them as “TRAINS IN THE SKY” ! Rumbling through the “Loop” the very center of the city of Chicago, past buildings that you could actually LOOK in the windows of peoples apartments as you roared past, seeing their living rooms, bedrooms, wondering “How could ANYONE live with the constant rumbling of the trains night and day?”
In so many ways Jerry I am so glad you have opened up your memories even your CHILDHOOD memories to us. One thing is certain, in so many ways some of our lives were really so very very similar . Even though I grew up in Chicago and you grew up in New York, I really feel like you are an old friend of mine, almost as if I have known you all my life! Isn’t that funny? But I think the TIMES we lived in really shaped us to be a little bit different in so many ways even values wise, that is why it really is so much a of a joy to read your reminiscences because when I read YOUR memories, it just seems like my OWN brain kicks in with OH YEAH! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT! Rmember THAT??? WASN’T IT GREAT???!!!!
Please keep writing Jerry you have a core group of people to whom you are so much more than just a friend, rather its like YOU are from the “NEIGHBOURHOOD” and we have known each other all along!
We love you Jerry you are a rare individual indeed! Can’t wait to see the next chapter of your incredible life! And in so many ways you wont be going it alone as we will ALL be going down that adventure TOGETHER!
HEY! LETS START OUR OWN CULT! You can be our Cult Leader! No on second thought, lets not , lets just keep things as nice as they are!
Sean
Greetings
This is Christmas week, and Ive been as usual flooded with emotions.
Brooklyn New York was my familys home for ages. It has only been in the last year that the patriarch of my family left for a better home.
The house we lived in was so very humble, my entire family had always been filled with inventive and creative individuals.
It began for me with the virtues of plain hard work at such a very early age. I did mix cement for my Uncle who built his own house out on Eastern Long Island, he taught me my stone work sort of against my will and gardening which I had taken to much easier. Through the gifts of ancesters I had rekindled skills that are ageless and may I say now a neccesity.
These gifts have in everway begun to consume me and I do feel very responsible for cultivating them so they floursih to the best of my ability.
It is during this perticular time of our year our lives that I recall my very colorful advetures , and all I ve learned from these Individuals.
You know my thoughts are that fate has had plans for all of us, we only need to wake and to follow.
your friendship is very dear to me pal,
forever
The Faun