Columbus Avenue (They Were Here), Legacy Business
By Claudie Benjamin A New Yorker article in the July 20, 1987 issue of the magazine poignantly described the auction of the effects of Louis Lichtman’s, the bakery that had long been on the corner of 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Folk musician David Roth recently described how he was inspired by that article....
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Recently, in Paris, a customer left Shakespeare and Company, the iconic bookstore, and right out front filled her water tumbler straight from one of the multitude of elaborately ornamented 19th-century “Wallace” water fountains on the streets of this city. Refilling a water tumbler, whether in Paris, Manhattan, or...
