as everyone is confessin'… I've no NYC blood connections, to my knowledge, and the bagels are not my first choice, BUT I have had the Great Fortune to meet some unique & superb NY souls!
grew up in jersey, dad from peter cooper village and still talks about days at stuyvesant high school, from a young age i always felt like nyc was where i belonged.
For the 15th 9/11 anniversary, the Stop & Shop one town over had a table near the front with "9/11 supplies." Red, white, and blue stuff galore, food and decorations, the latter likely recycled July 4th shit. I, difficult to offend, and largely refractory to 9/11 kitsch or sentiment, was offended.
@wittsend: I hope this helps, or at least doesn't hurt.
8:29pm
herb.nyc:
Thx for honoring NYC. But isn't that oversimplifying 9/11? Pardon my (cynical?) attitude.
8:29pm
cheri:
I think new York music is the greatest Gaylord and Amanda! thanks very much Gaylord and amanda
8:30pm
JakeGould:
I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan on the morning of 9/11. Friends and some extended family in Lower Manhattan so I figured why not. Got to City Hall and was turned away by NYPD. Surreal. Burned documents were still floating to the ground.
Wittsend, a strange, said fraternity of people who lost loved ones that day. Few visual memories will stay with me like the walls of "missing" posters and fliers all over the city in the weeks that followed.
Hey Gaylord and Amanda, and all native New Yawkiz and New Yorkers at heart - Upper West Side, Stephen Wise Towers projects girl representing - although now I live upstate. (And work next door to the new WTC now. )
8:31pm
sugarwolf:
@james: and I thought stop and shop's bacon and maple cookies were in poor taste
@wittsend: :(
Shook the world. I remember precisely where I was, and my feelings of disbelief and worry. Always had, & it remains, much appreciation & love for NYC. And its residents, past, present, & in spirit. (…fat bagels included!)
I'm a native New Yorker but I was in England for 9/11. I was so homesick, and listening to archives of your show over the internet really got me through that time! Though I still have not listened to your 9/11 show.
I'm not a native, but lived in the City part of New York 1979-2002. My kids were born in Manhattan and Brooklyn (at home) respectively, but identify as mid-Hudsonites.
8:35pm
sugarwolf:
@maggiemaggie: I was in London too! It was the day after one of my flatmates had died after being hit by a car, so it was a weird, awful time.
I met Ingrid once, before she got her breakthrough by getting a song onto Grey's Anatomy. I liked her a lot.
8:36pm
herb.nyc:
(I'm sorry, Gaylord)
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Maggie B.:
I went to St. Gregory too, all 8 years. So sad that both school and church are closed. It was a great place in the 60s and 70s. My friends from other parishes did not have such fond memories of Catholic grade school.
thanks for the wishes. tomorrow the holiday will be spent with buckets of red sauce or Rendazzo’s in Sheepshead Bay for counter-style clams on the half shell. family tradition. way to take the edge off.
The aftermath of 9/11 was really weird: lower Manhattan closed off a la ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the smoke mostly blew over Brooklyn for the first few days, so legal papers etc would rain on the streets of Park Slope. I took my son to the Natural History Museum on that Thursday, it was mostly empty, but open!
@gaylord I knew exactly how old you were when you played Daktari and Hambone :)
8:43pm
herb.nyc:
I'm off to see Ken Stringfellow at Cape House (bushwick)now. His TOUCHED cd came out on 9/11, and he played Maxwell's and Mercury Lounge just days after. My friends said it was amazing and uplifting.
Also, I am now logged in. Anyone else at the Luna Lounge comedy show on 9/10/2001? I was! It was weird for two reasons: Demetri Martin did his act and part of it was passing out… AIRPLANE SHAPED COOKIES! They were a part of his act.
And more personal, I was talking to a friend of a friend and she mentioned something about working near the World Trade Center and how dull it is. And I aded, “You know, I have never liked the World Trade Center. I’ve never felt comfortable near that place. Can’t stand it.”
I never really expressed that ever before… Except that day… And then history. Jesus, Mary, Moses and Vishnu.
Barry Manilow began this program. I can't help but want to hear Carole King too. In my childhood, they both represented the world I wanted to escape to - NYC!!!
@GaylordFields: He does qualify. Billy Joel does indeed qualify.
Also, I remember the days after 9-11, walking out of my apartment on Atlantic Avenue, looking to the left and seeing that plume of smoke… And as others have mentioned, that smell… For days. Days of that smell.
Also, the piles of “Missing” posters on walls everywhere seemingly in every neighborhood.
@geezerette: Actual Bacharach/David song and Bacharach production. Lou Johnson was considered the male Dionne Warwick, except with no hits compared to her many.
I remember being in college, and a colleague on the school paper sees me, runs up to me and just says, “Jack! You have to listen to this…” (re: “Three Feet High and Rising”)
As a freshman in college I took a colloquium class in the art dept. in which the professor would play music sometimes at the beginning as students came in, and Magic Number was the song on the first day. Very exciting. For some reason the prof pronounced it Der La Soul.
Thanks for this unique 9/11 show. There are certainly a lot of New York voices from which to choose. Also, nice to hear you, Amanda. I haven't raided the Simpsons Time cabinet in quite a while.
Was busy in the kitchen during the last hour, sorry I didn't comment any further. A landmark show. Well done. Going to have to go back and check Amanda's archives for previous installments.
10:31am
Miss Georgia Peach:
What an amazing show! Making me nostalgic for NYC. Thank you
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