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A chronicle of people, places, happenings, and creations we admire.

How To Be A Proper New Yorker: Tip No.3

Going underground

As we all know
when it works, the subway is the fastest way to go

This travel can be delicate
without some "proper etiquette"

The list of do's and don'ts is long
New Yorkers know what's right, what's wrong

We all agree our trip is eased 
when we're not squeezed, teased or in any other way displeased

 

Staying on top of it 

The most reliable way around town?
Walking! East, west, up and down

Focused, fast and checking our clocks
We're counting the street and avenue blocks

Eyeing the crosswalk countdown to zero
Our coat like the cape of a superhero

Stomping away on the bustling street
Thanking our terrifically trusted feet!

How to be a Proper New Yorker: Tip No.1

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Talk to Strangers 

A chat on the crosswalk
or restroom line small talk
can turn your gray day ok

A cafe greeting
can become a wonderful meeting

Your day may even end
with a completely new friend

Don’t Talk to Strange Strangers

If you smell body odor from afar
if you see bare feet in the wrong season

if you can find an empty subway car
know that there’s a reason

CIVIL RIGHTS STYLE.

MLK and Marlon Brando

MLK and Marlon Brando

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

Lena Horne ©Courtesy National Archives

Lena Horne ©Courtesy National Archives

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte

Paul Newman

Paul Newman

MLK.

MLK.

Sammy Davis, Jr and Roy Wilkins, NAACP ©Courtesy National Archives

Sammy Davis, Jr and Roy Wilkins, NAACP ©Courtesy National Archives

Jackie Robinson ©Courtesy National Archives

Jackie Robinson ©Courtesy National Archives

Robert Kennedy visiting Harlem

Robert Kennedy visiting Harlem

Austin Clinton Brown, Age 9 ©Courtesy National Archives

Austin Clinton Brown, Age 9 ©Courtesy National Archives

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

L to R- Mathew Ahmann, Cleveland Robinson, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, A. Philip Randolph, Joseph Rauh, Jr, John Lewis, Floyd McKissick, Photo Credit: National Archives

L to R- Mathew Ahmann, Cleveland Robinson, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, A. Philip Randolph, Joseph Rauh, Jr, John Lewis, Floyd McKissick, Photo Credit: National Archives

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

James Baldwin and Marlon Brando ©Courtesy National Archives

James Baldwin and Marlon Brando ©Courtesy National Archives

Paul Robeson and Julian Bond

Paul Robeson and Julian Bond

Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks