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Category Archives: my city and neighborhood
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a New York sunset
new post (sunrise and sunset)
new post (the Statue of Liberty)
the original “Power Broker” articles (The New Yorker)
new post (Inwood Hill Park)
Roger W. Smith, photographer of my city
Staten Island beach walks
Sea-cabbage; salt hay; sea-rushes; ooze–sea-ooze; gluten–sea-gluten; sea-scum; spawn; surf; beach; salt-perfume; mud; sound of walking barefoot ankle in the edge of the water by the sea. — Walt Whitman
— Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume IV: Notes, edited by Edward F. Grier (New York University Press 1984), pg. 1309
photographs of Midland Beach, Staten Island, by Roger W. Smith
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2023
Walt Whitman, “Brooklyn Parks”
Walt Whitman, ‘Brooklyn Parks’
Posted here (Word document above):
Walt Whitman. “BROOKLYN PARKS”
Brooklyn Daily Times, April 17, 1858
What intrigues me is Whitman’s mention of “a Park on the heights, over Montague ferry!,” whereby he refers to the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, from which there is a splendid view of Manhattan.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
January 2023
Brooklyn Heights; photo by Roger W. Smith
Brooklyn Heights; photo by Roger W. Smith