New York

"It's lovely going through the zoo." –Rodgers & Hart, "Manhattan," 1925

Dom Aversano, who writes Liner Notes, asked me to write about New York. What could I possibly say about New York, especially when Alki Steriopoulos has been writing about the Big Apple so eloquently of late?

I spent 30 years in the city that never sleeps–12 living in Manhattan, 18 in Brooklyn. But memory is funny, shining its spotlight on a thousand …