Downtown after Sandy: 3 Miles In the Dark

Boing Boing ran this cool video yesterday by Joe Sabia: "Walking 3 miles from Mulberry Street to Grand Central on the night after Hurricane Sandy," Joe explains. "Everything south of 38th street was dark."

Observations:
1) People used pay phones.
2) Lone cops would stand on corners keeping an eye out on things.
3) A few bars would have candle-lit drinking hours. Which reminded me of NYC in the 1700s, if I was alive then.

NYNS - Manhattan Fable

Here's a nice one by a guy who I've only just started checking out, Babs Gonzales...he's sort of what you might get if you crossed Slim Gaillard with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with a heavy dose of hep cat beatnik be-bop slang. Here's Manhattan Fable from his Tales of Manhattan LP.

Also in the news, in some sort of strange synchronistic coincidence, it turns out Cherry Red Records will be issuing a 2-for-1 CD of Tales of Manhattan paired with Googie Rene's classic Romesville this month. Both have been out of print for who knows how long. Personally, I can't get enough of this stuff.

We are ugly but we have the music

Visit the New York Nobody Sings for recent posts by me on the UK Subs and Leonard Cohen.

I've been saying it for years

Thanks Debbie!