Tag Archives: Prospect Heights

February’s Snowy Wallop

Posted on February 28, 2021 by cara

February in New York City packed a snowy wallop, but we hardy Big Apple types shoveled and sloshed our way through — one major snowstorm early in the month that dropped nearly two feet of the white stuff upon us, … Continue reading →

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New York, City of Restaurants, Bent but not Broken

Posted on November 23, 2020 by cara

When I think back on this sad time (assuming I survive it), the above image will always evoke the Covid era in New York City for me. The art, by Jorge Colombo, appeared in The New Yorker magazine last summer … Continue reading →

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The Itinerant Urban Gardener

Posted on July 27, 2014 by cara

IT BEGAN when my daughter moved into a Prospect Heights brownstone with a struggling pine tree in a barrel  out front. Each time I visited, I eyed the dead branches, wishing I could take a pruner to the thing and … Continue reading →

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Leaf Peeping in Brooklyn

Posted on November 9, 2013 by cara

SEEMS TO ME THE FALL COLORS — peaking late after an unseasonably warm October — are more brilliant than usual this year. Here in Brownstone Brooklyn, there’s no sense one needs to go up to Vermont or the Hudson Valley … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn the Beautiful

Posted on February 17, 2013 by cara

WITH DAFFODIL FOLIAGE PUSHING UP in the front yards of brownstone Brooklyn, the winter of my content is coming to an end. I’ve enjoyed this uninterrupted two-month spell of  life in my ever-amazing home borough, where you see things like … Continue reading →

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