Posts Tagged ‘Fort Tryon Park’
In which The Gay Recluse explores the perils of uptown living. Date of photograph: April 13, 2008 Location: The little park between Ft. Tryon and Inwood Hill between Dyckman and Riverside. (Approximately.) Now that it’s warm enough to go outside and there’s plenty of wind, especially down by the river, we’ve been gearing up for […]
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Tags: Fort Tryon Park, Hunger, Inwood, Kite Eating Trees, Kites, Munching, Snacks, Uptown, Warm Weather, Wind
In which The Gay Recluse turns forty. Today we received the following note from Harry, a reader in Washington Heights: Subj: YOU Mess: It is none my business to know, but! My curiosity is tweaked. Who are you? Have you posted something somewhere to give a more detailed bio? or do I have to continue […]
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Tags: Aries, Autism, Birthdays, Fort Tryon Park, Forty, Galaxie 500, Inwood Hill Park, Lampposts, The Minutemen, Upper Manhattan
In which The Gay Recluse celebrates Easter. It was not until eleventh grade — in Mrs. S____’s English class — that we began to appreciate the obsessive and illogical side of literature, which of course is to say we were reading Wuthering Heights. Do you remember Mrs. S____? How thin and small and severe she […]
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Tags: Catherine, Easter, Emily Bronte, Fort Tryon Park, Heathcliff, Heather, Sylvia Plath, The Moors, Wuthering Heights
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