MY #NYC

๐•‹๐• ๐•ž ๐•Š๐•–๐•ž๐•š๐• ๐•๐•š ๐•šโ„™๐•™๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•– โ„™๐•™๐• ๐•ฅ๐• -โ„‚๐• ๐•๐•๐•’๐•˜๐•–๐•ค…

 

MY #NYC 6 July 2025: โ€œWell, she was walkin’ down the street. Lookin’ fine as she could be. Sheโ€™s about a moverโ€ฆ.โ€ Douglas Wayne Sahmย 

 

MY #NYC 4 July 2025: โ€œFace the face, got to face the face. Face the face, got to face the face. You must have heard the cautionary tales. The dangers hidden on the cul-de-sac trails. From wiser folk who’ve been through it all and the faded name sprayed up on the wallโ€ฆโ€ Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend

 

MY #NYC 2 July 2025: โ€I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. I am waiting at the counter… for the man to pour the coffeeโ€ฆ.โ€ Suzanne Vega

 

๐Œ๐˜ #๐๐˜๐‚ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“: โ€œ๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž? ๐‡๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ. ๐€ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž. ๐“๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž’๐ฌ ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐›๐ฒ. ๐Œ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ. ๐‘๐ฎ๐ง ๐›๐ฒ, ๐๐จ๐ง’๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค. ๐‚๐š๐ง’๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ฒ๐žโ€ฆโ€ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐‡๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐š๐ง

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MY #NYC 1 July 2025: โ€œI don’t look down. From Central Park to Shanty Town. I always hear that crazy soundโ€ฆ So why be bored? Who scared you and why stay here? This is no piece of cake. When I hear that crazy soundโ€ฆโ€ James Newell Osterberg Jr.ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 30 June 2025: โ€œYou got my heart… speak electric waterโ€ฆyou got my soulโ€ฆscreamin’ and howlin’ freedom, thatโ€™s what I want now, give it to meโ€ฆโ€ James Marshall Hendrixย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 29 June 2025: โ€œGold and rose, the color of the dream I had. Not too long ago, misty blue and the lilac tooโ€ฆ never to grow oldโ€ James Marshall Hendrixย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

My #NYC 28 June 2025: โ€œI’m up on the eleventh floor and I’m watching the cruisers below. He’s down on the street,ย  and he’s trying hard to pull sister Floโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jonesย  ย ย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 27 June 2025: โ€œStanding on the corner, watching all the girls go byโ€ฆ Brother, you don’t know a nicer occupation. Matter of fact, neither do Iโ€ฆโ€ Frank Loesserย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 26 June 2025: โ€œHey now all you sinners, put your lights onโ€ฆ Hey now all you lovers, put your lights onโ€ฆBecause there’s a monster living under my bed, whispering in my ear. There’s an angel with a hand on my head she says I’ve got nothing to fearโ€ฆโ€ย  Erik Francis Schrodyย 

 

MY #NYC 25 June 2025: โ€œWhen my baby’s walking down the street I see red, I see red, I see red. How could someone wicked walk round free. I see red, I see red, I see redโ€ฆโ€ Brian Timothy Finn OBEย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 24 June 2025: โ€œI wanna run, I wanna ride. I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. Oh, show me a place high on the desert plain where the streets have no nameโ€ฆโ€ Paul David Hewsonย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 22 June 2025: โ€œFollow, follow the leader na-na-now. New York, New York City na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-now nowโ€ฆ Oh, if you wanna dance, hey, work up a sweat. You better-better-better, get yourself, ah-huh, a little romanceโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allen Reedย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 20 June 2025:ย โ€œCold fire, you’ve got everything but cold fire. You will be my rest and peace child. I moved up to take a place near youโ€ David Robert Jones ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 14 June 2025: โ€œOn the surface itโ€™s all superfluous. I tell Valerie, she gets nervous. If Iโ€™m selected for selective service, my salary will more than serve usโ€ฆ.โ€ Tomaso Johnย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 13 June 2025: In New York concrete jungle where dreams are made ofโ€ฆ there’s nothin’ you can’t doโ€ฆ Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand-new…โ€ Shawn Corey Carterย  ย 

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MY #NYC 9 June 2025: โ€œIf you want me to stay, I’ll be around today. To be available for you to see. But I am about to go and then you’ll know for me to stay here, I got to be meโ€ฆโ€ Sylvester Stewartย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 1 June 2025: โ€œLights onโ€ฆsheโ€™s changed her mind. Lights onโ€ฆ look at the time. So, you wanna go home? Iโ€™ll give you a rideโ€ฆ youโ€™d rather go it alone, oh really?โ€ Tom Clarkย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 1.1 June 2025: โ€œThere are no easy answers to elongated questions. So try and keep an eye out and be open to suggestionsโ€ฆโ€ John Joseph Lydon

 

๐Œ๐˜ #๐๐˜๐‚ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“: โ€œ๐ƒ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž. ๐…๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ก๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ. ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž. ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐š๐ง๐œ๐žโ€ฆโ€ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ ๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ง๐š ๐๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐š๐ รก๐ง / ๐“๐จ๐ฆ ๐‚๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ / ๐๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 30.1 May 2025: If I could make a wish, I think I’d pass. Can’t think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, No light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read. Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe, and to love you.โ€ Mike Hazlewood / Albert Louis Hammondย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 30 May 2025: โ€œI stood up to the powers that beโ€ฆ I stood up, โ€˜cause I needed to seeโ€ฆVoices in my headโ€ฆ canโ€™t you see, itโ€™s a rising tideโ€ฆโ€ Felice Rosserย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย  ย  ย ย 

 

๐Œ๐˜ #๐๐˜๐‚ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“: โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐, ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐žโ€ฆโ€ ๐‹๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ž๐ซ, ๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐, ๐„๐๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‰๐ซ. ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ย  ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 26 May 2025: โ€œI can’t forget the impression you made. You left a hole in the back of my head. I don’t like hiding in this foliage and peat. It’s wet and I’m losing my body heat. The cassette played poptonesโ€ฆโ€ John Joseph Lydonย ย 

 

MY #NYC 25.1 May 2025: โ€œAs the trees reached their hands to the heaven and the watchman began to stare, I saw the two rainbows laying across the highway, and I dare not to stare. So can you come out tonight? I got a ride on a satellite. It’s a secret for you I’ve been creatingโ€ฆโ€ William Earl Collinsย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 25 May 2025: โ€œPeople were dancin’ like there’s no tomorrow, Meat City Finger lickin’, chicken pickin’ Meat City, shook down U.S.Aโ€ฆ.โ€ John Winston Lennonย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 21 May 2025: โ€œCome on out of your dreams. And wake up from your reverie. Time is here don’t go to sleep. Streets are running on the brinkโ€ฆโ€ Beck Hansenย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 20.1 May 2025: โ€œIf I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstore sells. When you reach the part where the heartaches come the hero would be me. Heroes often fail, and you won’t read that book againโ€ฆโ€ Gordon Meredith Lightfootย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 19.1 May 2025: โ€œI play the street life. Because there’s no place I can go. Street life. It’s the only life I know. Street life. And there’s a thousand cards to playโ€ฆโ€ Will Jennings / Joe Sampleย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 19 May 2025: Dis Is Da Drumโ€ฆ. Herbert Jeffrey Hancockย  ย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 10.1 May 2025: โ€œOh, I just want to hear girls talk. I got a loaded imagination being fired by girls talk. But I can’t say the words you want to hear. I suppose you’re going to have to play it by ear. Right here and nowโ€ฆโ€ Declan McManusย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 10.2 May 2025: โ€œShe makes me feel like I’m theโ€…onlyโ€…man for herโ€…in this world. Now maybe it’s theโ€…way that my girl walkโ€ฆ maybe it’s the way that my girl talk. Oh yes she makes me feel like I’m a king. That’s the kind of love that my girl bring. Oh yeah-e, yeah-e, yeah-eโ€ฆโ€ Gregory Isaacsย  ย 

MY #NYC 9 May 2025: โ€œYou’re the kind of person that I’ve been dreaming of. You’re the kind of person that I always wanted to love. And when I first seen you walk right through that bar door. And I seen those suit and tie johns buy you one drink, and then buy you some more I had aโ€ฆ I knew you had that crazy feelingโ€ Lewis Allen Reedย  ย  ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 8 May 2025 โ€œWhenever dark has fallen you know the spirit of the party starts to come alive. Until the day is dawning you can throw out all the blues and hit the city lights. ‘Cause there’s music in the air and lots of lovin’ everywhere, so gimme the nightโ€ฆโ€ George Bensonย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 4 May 2025: โ€œMake no mistake about it. Things ain’t what they seem. I’m gonna scream and shout it. This is just a dreamโ€ฆโ€ Keith Richardsย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 3 May 2025: Let’s see action. Let’s see people. Let’s see freedom. Let’s see who cares. Take me with you. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshendย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 1.4 May 2025: โ€œWhy in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there? When you’re everywhere. Come and get your shareโ€ฆโ€ John Winston Lennonย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 1.3 May 2025: โ€œLive your life, and just be yourself. ‘Cause you’re somebody special, somebody loves your lifeโ€ฆ.โ€ will.i.am / Carlos Humberto Santana Barragรกnย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 1.2 May 2025: โ€œI hear voices, I see people. I hear voices of many peopleโ€ฆ Sayin’ everything is everythingโ€ฆโ€ Donny Edward Hathawayย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 1.1 May 2025: โ€œYou can understand everything’s to share. Let your spirit dance brothers everywhere. Let your head be free, turn the wisdom key, find it naturally – see you’re lucky to be. Dig this sound Itยจยชs been round and round and round.โ€ Carlos Humberto Santana Barragรกnย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

๐Œ๐˜ #๐๐˜๐‚ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—.๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“: โ€œ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐’๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐š ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ฒ. ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ž ๐„๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฒ ๐’๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ. ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง. ๐‚๐š ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญโ€ฆ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐›๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ. ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž.. ๐’๐จ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐโ€ฆ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ข๐ญ ‘๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐโ€ฆโ€ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฏ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐š๐ซ๐๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 29.1 April 2025: โ€œNew Yorkโ€ฆ like a scene from all those movies. But you’re real enough to me. There’s a heartโ€ฆ that lives in New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ ย Benny Gallagher / Graham Lyleย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 29 April 2025: โ€œDance little sister, dance with your missed her, saw that I kissed her, heard that he dissed her, sheโ€™s a fighter, cigarette lighter, lighter getting lighter, mystery writerโ€ฆโ€ย  Tomaso Johnย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 25 APRIL 2025: โ€œLife is pleasure life is pain, homes are lost to eminent domainโ€ฆwalk down the aisle be my brideโ€ฆstick your tongue out open wideโ€ฆโ€ Tomaso Johnย  ย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 24 APRIL 2025: โ€œPretty woman, won’t you pardon me? Pretty woman, I couldn’t help but see. Pretty woman, you look lovely as can be. Are you lonely just like me? Rawwwwrโ€ฆ.โ€ Roy Kelton Orbisonย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 22.1 APRIL 2025: โ€œI saw her, yeah I saw her with her black tongue tied โ€˜round the roses. Fist pounding on a vending machine. Toy diamond ring stuck on her finger. Hey, my sun eyed girlโ€ฆโ€ Beck David Hansenย  ย  ย  ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 22 APRIL 2025 โ€œShoulda took a picture. Something I could keep. Buy a little frame. Something cheap. For youโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jonesย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 20 April 2025: โ€œDon’t these city lights, light these streets to life? All these crazy nights bring us togetherโ€ฆWe’re supposed to be a land of liberty and those city lights to blaze foreverโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allan Reedย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 19 April 2025: โ€œI was alone and content in my world. Dancing on air. You sent to me a message that said โ€˜I like your styleโ€™โ€ฆโ€ Patricia Lee Smith

 

MY #NYC 18 April 2025: โ€œI see us in the park strolling the summer days of imaginings in my head. And words from our hearts told only to the winds, felt even without being saidโ€ฆโ€ Stevland Hardaway Morrisย 

 

MY #NYC 17 April 2025 โ€œThere she was just a-walkin’ down the street, singin’ ‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’. Snappin’ her fingers and shufflin’ her feet, singin’ ‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’. She looked good (Looked good). She looked fine (Looked fine). She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my mindโ€ฆโ€ Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry

 

MY #NYC 15 April 2025: โ€œI’m starting with the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his waysโ€ฆโ€Siedah Garrett / Glen Ballardย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 15 April 2025: โ€œDaily records. Just want to be making daily records. Try to avoid the bad news in the lettersโ€ฆโ€ Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend

 

MY #NYC 10 April 2025: โ€œBut today there is no day or night. Today there is no dark or light. Today there is no black or white, only shades of grayโ€ฆโ€ Cynthia Weil / Barry Mannย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 7 April 2025: โ€œLemon, see-through in the sunlight. She wore lemon but never in the daylightโ€ฆโ€ Paul David Hewsonย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 30 March 2025: โ€œYou see I met a devil named Buena, Buena and since I met the devil I ain’t been the sameโ€ฆโ€ Mark Sandmanย 

 

MY #NYC 29.1 March 2025: Cost of an iced coffee with a shot of expresso and a designer chocolate chip cookie downtown NYC $14.25 (tip included). Watching pretty girls pass me by: priceless….ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 30 March 2025: I got nothing to eat in this old house. I gotta go out and catch a mouse. I can’t be wrong so I gotta be right. Your skills are highly specialized. But still that girl can magnetize. You sense the hunger in her eyesโ€ฆ strike or be stricken. Eat or be eatenโ€ฆโ€ James Newell Osterberg Jr.

 

MY #NYC 27 March 2025: โ€œI’ll say goodbye to all my sorrow. And by tomorrow I’ll be on my way, I guess the Lord must be in New York City. Ain’t it wonderful to be where I’ve always wanted to be? I’ll breathe free, here in New York Cityโ€ฆโ€ Harry Edward Nilsson IIIย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 26 March 2025: โ€œIโ€™m a silhouette not a soldier. Iโ€™m a dilletante who pulled one over the leaders and Japanese cedars who cede their power to the bottom feedersโ€ฆโ€ Tomaso Johnย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 22 March 2025: โ€œIn New York freedom looks like too many choices. In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices. Voices on the cell phone. Voices from home. Voices of the hard sell. Voices down the stairwell in New York. Just got a place in New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ Paul David Hewsonย ย 

 

MY #NYC 20 March 2025: โ€œYouโ€™ve heard of Radio Ethiopia? Well, Iโ€™m Radio Brooklyn!โ€ Lewis Allan Reedย ย 

 

MY #NYC 19 March 2025 โ€All the majesty of a city landscape. All the soaring days in our lives. All the concrete dreams in my mind’s eye. All the joy I see thru’ these architect’s eyesโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jonesย  ย ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 17 March 2025: โ€œThey call you ecstasy. Nothing ever sticks to you. Not velcro, not scotch tape. Not my arms dipped in glue.โ€ Lewis Allan Reedย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 16 March 2025: โ€œI’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don’t know. I’ll be the wind, the rain and the sunset, the light on your door to show that you’re homeโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allan Reedย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 13 2025: โ€œTime after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world. Telling us all its them who’s in charge of it all. I’ve got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall. We’ve got the power now that’s where it belongsโ€ฆโ€ Wayne Michael Coyneย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 11 March 2025: โ€œAh, it’s a happy time inside my mind. When a melody does find a rhyme says to me I’m comin’ home to stay, oh Lord, home to stayโ€ฆโ€ Timothy Charles Buckleyย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 10 March 2025: โ€œStanding in the shadow of another man. Lonely as the streets pass me by.ย  Life ain’t under pressure ’cause I got a plan, starin’ at myself in the eyeโ€ฆโ€ย  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanottaย 

 

MY #NYC 8 March 2025: โ€œWhen that fat old sun in the sky is fallingโ€ฆsummer evening birds are callingโ€ฆ and if you see, don’t make a sound, pick your feet up off the groundโ€ฆโ€ David Jon Gilmourย  ย 

 

My #NYC 8 March 2025: โ€œWell, I’m an animal, something like a cannibal. I’m very flammable and partially programmable. Centuries of overuse, now I wear it nice and looseโ€ฆโ€ Anthony Kiedisย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 7 March 2025: โ€œWhile Mona Lisas and mad hattersโ€ฆ sons of bankers, sons of lawyersโ€ฆturn around and say good morning to the nightโ€ฆfor unless they see the skyโ€ฆbut they can’t and that is whyโ€ฆ they know not if it’s dark outside or lightโ€ฆโ€ Bernard John Taupinย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 1 March 2025: โ€œWhen your imagination has too much to sayโ€ฆ when the chill of the night meets the sweat of the dayโ€ฆ.and you have trouble understanding what other people have to say, you’d better hang on to your emotionsโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allan Reedย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 27.2 February 2025: โ€œI don’t know where the sunbeams end, and the star lights begin. It’s all a mystery. And I don’t know how a man decides, what’s right for his own life. It’s all a mysteryโ€ Wayne Michael Coyneย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 25.3 February 2025 โ€œI know an angel on the east side of Heaven who lives in a first story room. We meet on a rooftop and dream in the dark, when the lights of New York are in bloom. All through the daytime it’s the same old Manhattan, but evening again sets me freeโ€ฆโ€ John Scott Totter / Harry Lillis โ€œBingโ€ Crosbyย  ย  ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 25.1.2025 โ€œThey say that heaven is 10 zillion light years awayโ€ฆ and just the pure at heart will walk her righteous streets somedayโ€ฆโ€ Stevland Hardaway Morrisย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 25.2.2025 โ€œAs around the sun the earth knows she’s revolvingโ€ฆ As now can’t reveal the mystery of tomorrowโ€ฆ until the rainbow burns the stars out in the skyโ€ฆ until the ocean covers every mountain highโ€ฆuntil we dream of life and life becomes a dreamโ€ฆโ€ Stevland Hardaway Morrisย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 21.2.2025 โ€œAnd it’s just like the ocean under the moonโ€ฆit’s the same as the emotion that I get from youโ€ฆyou got the kind of lovin’ that can be so smoothโ€ฆ gimme your heart, make it realโ€ฆor else forget about itโ€ฆโ€ Robert Kelly Thomas / Carlos Humberto Santana Barragรกnย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 24.1.2025 โ€œThere was China in her eyes, in a silk and velvet disguise. She was moving’ like a lady, looking’ like a dragon princessโ€ฆโ€ Paul Lorin Kantnerย  ย ย 

 

MY NYC 18 February 2025: ๐ƒ๐€๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ ๐‚. ๐†๐‘๐Ž๐’๐’ & ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’ ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐€๐“ ๐’๐ˆ๐‹๐•๐€๐๐€ ๐‡๐€๐‘๐‹๐„๐Œ ๐Œ๐š๐œ ๐†๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ง / ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ญ, ๐’๐œ๐š๐ญ ๐•๐จ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ; ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ž ๐’๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ / ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ƒ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐“๐š๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ / ๐“๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐ง๐ž, ๐’๐œ๐š๐ญ ๐•๐จ๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ; ๐ƒ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐‚ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ”-๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ & ๐„๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ.

 

MY #NYC 16 February 2025: โ€œIncense and peppermints, meaningless nouns. Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around. Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girlโ€ฆโ€ Timothy Gilbert, John Carterย  ย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 15 February 2025 โ€œThey sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within. I’m coming now to reward them. First we take Manhattanโ€ฆ then we take Berlinโ€ฆโ€ Leonard Norman Cohen

 

MY #NYC 14 February 2025 โ€œHey now, you got me by the tongue. I feel like, there’s nowhere I belong. And they’re working it pretty hard. And they’re selling it by the yard. But it’s more than I can affordโ€ฆโ€ David Gray

 

๐— ๐—ฌ #๐—ก๐—ฌ๐—– ๐Ÿฐ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ โ€œ๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฎ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒโ€ฆโ€ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—น ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป

 

MY #NYC 3 February 2025 โ€œAnd the sign said, “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, in tenement hallsโ€ฆ and whispered in the sounds of silenceโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simon

MY #NYC 30 January 2025 โ€œAnd I can’t look down, from Central Park to Shanty Town. I always heard that crazy sound, from New York to Shanty Townโ€ฆ James Osterbergย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 28 January 2025 โ€œNew York City is a friendly old town, from Washington Heights to Harlem on downโ€ฆthere’s a-mighty many people millin’ all aroundโ€ฆ. Robert Allen Zimmermanย ย 

 

MY #NYC 27 January 2025 โ€œIn a catacomb or cave of endless drawingsโ€ฆ prehistoric or religiousโ€ฆ your accomplishments prodigiousโ€ฆ seeking out the perfect toneโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allen Reed

 

MY #NYC 18 January 2025: โ€œI’m doing fine up here, on cloud nineโ€ฆlisten, one more timeโ€ฆโ€ Norman Whitfield / Barry Strongย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 16 January 2025 โ€œSons of the silent age stand on platforms blank looks and notebooks, sit in back rows of city limitsโ€ฆ Sons of the silent age don’t walk, they just glide in and out of lifeโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jones

 

MY #NYC 14 January 2025 โ€œThe traffic on Canal Street’s so noisy it’s a shock. And someone’s shooting fireworks or a gun on the next block. And I wanna hooky wooky with youโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allen Reed

 

MY #NYC 9 January 2025 โ€œShoulda took a picture. Something I could keep. Buy a little frame. Something cheap. For you. Everyone says hiโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jonesย 

 

MY #NYC 6 January 2025 โ€œThere is no political solution to our troubled evolutionโ€ฆwe are spirits in the material world, are spirits in the material worldโ€ฆโ€ Gordon Matthew Sumnerย  ย  ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 6 January 2025 โ€œSometimes in winterโ€ฆ forgotten memories remember you behind the treesโ€ฆโ€ Steve Katzย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 2 January 2025: โ€œDid you ever take a look to see whose left around? Everyone I thought was cool is six feet underground! I’m still alive and well, still alive and wellโ€ฆ Every now and then I know it’s kinda hard to tellโ€ฆ but I’m still alive and wellโ€ฆโ€ John Dawson Winter lllย 

 

๐‘ฐ๐‘ป ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘บ ๐‘จ ๐‘ฝ๐‘ฌ๐‘น๐’€ ๐‘ฌ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ๐‘ช๐‘ป๐‘น๐‘ถ-๐‘ซ๐‘ผ๐‘ฉ ๐’€๐‘ฌ๐‘จ๐‘นโ€ฆ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’„๐’‚๐’Ž๐’† ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’–๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐‘บ๐’‘๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’†๐’•๐’•๐’Š ๐‘ฌ๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’ ๐‘ฌ๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’“๐’ ๐‘ซ๐’–๐’ƒ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’Š๐’• ๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’๐’•โ€ฆ โ€ฆ ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’“๐’Š๐’…๐’…๐’–๐’Ž โ€˜๐’โ€™ ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’Œ ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’โ€™ ๐’Š๐’ 2025โ€ฆ. ๐‘ซ๐’Š๐’ˆ ๐‘ฒ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’‹๐’‚๐’“๐’ ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ณ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฝ๐‘ฌ ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐‘ฎ๐‘น๐‘ฌ๐‘ฌ๐‘ต ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฐ๐‘ณ๐‘ณ ๐‘บ๐‘ฌ๐‘บ๐‘บ๐‘ฐ๐‘ถ๐‘ต๐‘บ / ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ 2024 ๐‘ช๐’๐’๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’Š, ๐‘ซ๐’Š๐’“๐’Œ ๐‘ซ๐’“๐’‚๐’›๐’†๐’ ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’… ๐‘ฒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’๐’†, ๐‘บ๐’‘๐’๐’๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’๐’–๐’”ย  VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/A3wArLVm5VA?si=ZQajcvavplQHzagZย 

 

MY NYC 30 December 2024: โ€œTime, he’s waiting in the wings. He speaks of senseless things. His script is you and me, boy. Time, he flexes like a whore. Falls wanking to the floor. His trick is you and me, boyโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jones

 

MY NYC 24 December 2024: โ€œOutside my window is a tree. There only for me. And it stands in the grey of the cityโ€ฆโ€ Gail Collins / Felix Pappalardiย  ย ย 

 

MY NYC 10 December 2024: โ€œWell I got a foggy notion, do it again. Over by the corner, do it again. I got my calamine lotion baby, do it againโ€ฆโ€ Sterling Morrison, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker & Hy Weiss

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MY #NYC 8 December 2024: โ€œWe understand your paranoia. But we don’t wanna play your game You think you’re cool and know what you are doingโ€ฆ 666 is your nameโ€ฆโ€ John Winston Lennonย 

 

โ€™74 @ 50!ย Rod Stewart / Faces Live! Coast to Coast Overture and Beginners. Bassist Tetsu Yamauchi /Rod Stewart / Smiler. Bassists Spike Heatley, Willie Weeks, Ronnie Wood /ย Ronnie Wood / Iโ€™ve Got My Own Album to Do. Bassists Willie Weeks, Pete Sears, with Mick Taylor /ย Rolling Stones / Itโ€™s Only Rock and Roll. Bassists Bill Wyman, Willie Weeks, with Keith Richards, Mick Taylor /ย Bill Wyman / Monkey Grip. Bassist Wiliam George Perks RAF O.H.M.S.ย 

 

MY #NYC 21 November 2024: โ€œImagine how my daddy felt, in your jet black suspender belt. Seventeen years old. He’s touching sixty-four. You got legs right up to your neck. You’re making me a physical wreck. I’m talking to youโ€ฆhot legsโ€ฆโ€ Sir Roderick David Stewart CBEย ย 

 

๐‘ด๐’€ #๐‘ต๐’€๐‘ช 20 ๐‘ต๐’๐’—๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ 2024: ๐‘จ๐’Ž ๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’โ€™ ๐’€๐’๐’–โ€ฆ ๐‘จ๐’๐’Š ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’‚ & ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’‘๐’† ๐‘ด๐’๐’•๐’Š ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚๐’• ๐‘ณ๐’‚ ๐‘ซ๐’Š๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’†๐’Ž ๐‘ต๐’€๐‘ช ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’”๐’‘๐’†๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’” ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ช. ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’๐’”๐’” & ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’„ ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’๐’๐’†๐’‰๐’๐’!

 

MY #NYC 18 November 2024 โ€œA race of angels bound with one another. A dish of dollars laid out for all to see. A tower room at Eden Rockโ€ฆ his golf at noon for freeโ€ฆ Brooklyn owes the charmer under me..โ€ Walter Carl Becker / Donald Jay Faganย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 17 November 2024: โ€œI used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure. And I just can’t wait till the day when you knock on my door. Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down. ‘Cause I just can’t wait till you write me you’re coming around. I’m walking on sunshineโ€ฆ.โ€ Kimberly Rew

 

MY #NYC 11 November 2024 โ€œHe was the king of trees, keeper of the leaves. A deep green god of youngโ€ฆ love stained memory.โ€ Steven Demetre Georgiouย 

 

MY #NYC 10 November 2024 โ€œโ€ฆI’m just a raindrop in a bucket. A coin dropped in a slot. I am an empty house on Weed Street. Across the road from a vacant lotโ€ฆ You know life is what you make of itโ€ฆ so beautiful or so whatโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simonย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 9 November 2024 โ€œโ€ฆhalf of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where and we don’t know whyโ€ฆ.the only living boy in New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simon

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MY #NYC 6 November 2024: โ€œTigers don’t growl much unless they’re bored. Or unless attempting to tackle the jungle, Lordโ€ฆ whose face tigers never seeโ€ฆ but who still hands out their stripes judiciouslyโ€ฆโ€ Sananda Maitreya

 

MY #NYC 4 November 2024: โ€œIf I could live to be several hundred, I could take a walk and really wander. All my ghosts on every sea, in every landโ€ฆโ€ Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IVย 

 

MY #NYC 3 November 2024: โ€œI’m a road runner, baby. Can’t stay in one place too long. I’m a road runner, baby. You might look at me and I’ll be goneโ€ฆโ€ ย Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Jr. Hollandย 

 

MY #NYC 1 November 2024: โ€œThere’s a downtown fairy singing out “Proud Mary” as she cruises Christopher Street. And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean where the docks and the badlands meetโ€ฆ this Halloween is something to be sureโ€ฆโ€ Lewis Allan Reedย ย 

 

 

MY #NYC 30 October 2024 โ€œNovember and more, as I wait for the score, they’re telling me forgiveness is the key to every doorโ€ฆโ€ Phil Lesh / Bobby Petersonย 

 

MY #NYC 24 October 2024 โ€œSmiling faces sometimesโ€ฆ they don’t tell the truth. Smiling faces, tell lies and I got proofโ€ฆโ€ Norman Whitfieldย 

 

MY #NYC 22 October 2024 โ€œNow I own the key to the door, the kingdom of heaven lies insideโ€ฆI love visions of youโ€ฆโ€ Jah Wobbleย 

 

MY NYC 10.10.24: 144 Live at Silvana Harlem “It’s about that time…”ย 

 

MY NYC 4 October 2024 โ€œLife’s a game of give and take. Early in the morning get your concentration
on your meditation to take the right directionโ€ฆโ€ Carlos Santana / Michael Shrieveย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 26 September 2024 โ€œIโ€™ve been talking to myselfโ€ฆbecause Iโ€™m a little bit crazyโ€ฆโ€ Stu Richards / Magic Forest Live at AH Presents Ottoโ€™s Shrunken Head NYCย 

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MY #NYC 24 September 2024 โ€œMy friends are so alarming, my lover’s never charmingโ€ฆ life’s just a cocktail party on the streetโ€ฆโ€ Sir Michale Phillip Jagger / Keith Richardsย ย 

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MY NYC 23 September 2024 โ€œIn my sensations, I believe that I was born with the things that I know. I want to talk like I readโ€ฆโ€ David Byrneย 

 

MY NYC 22 September 2024 โ€œSomething in the night. Something in the day. There’s slaughter in the air protest on the windโ€ฆ Someone else inside meโ€ฆsomeone could get skinned. Someone fetch a priest, you can’t say no to the Beauty and The Beastโ€ฆโ€ David Robert Jones

 

MY NYC 19 September 2024 โ€œOnly renting. Only subletting. Fences mending. Just pretending. Reality bending. Signal sending. Patent pending. Just inventing. Let’s go โ€˜round the bend. Get in trouble again. Make a commotion. Drink a love potion. Sweet ’til the bitter endโ€ฆโ€ John Doe / Exene Cervenkaย 

 

MY N.Y.C. 16 September 2024 โ€œI am a tree, I show my age when I don’t cry. I have the leaf that will fall off when wind blows byโ€ฆI am a tree fruitless and freeโ€ฆโ€ Robert Pollardย ย 

 

MY #NYC 15 September 2024 โ€œSpeedy Marie, ahead of the now. She’s better built that’s how. She’s built for speed, Speedy Marieโ€ฆโ€ Frank Blackย 

 

 

 

MY NJ/NYC 15 September 2024 โ€œOne day you turn around and it’s summer. Next day you turn around and it’s fallโ€ฆas a man who has always had the wand’ring ways, now I’m reaching back for yesterdays. ‘Til a long-forgotten love appears and I find that I’m sighing softly as I near September, the warm September of my yearsโ€ฆโ€ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย Sammy Cahn as sung by Francis Albert Sinatraย ย 

 

MY NYC 13 September 2024 โ€œI wanna be somebody’s Chelsea, somebody’s world. Somebody’s day and night, one and only girl. A part of a love story that never has an end. You know that’s what every woman wants to be somebody’s Chelseaโ€ฆโ€ Reba McEntireย ย 

 

MY #NYC 13 September 2024 โ€œThe streets of New York, a maze made of iron and stone. A labyrinth complete, with edges that cut through the bone.โ€ Willie Nileย ย 

 

MY NYC 13 September 2024 โ€œAutumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?โ€ Vernon Dukeย 

 

MY #NYC 8 September 2024: โ€œWe’re so young and pretty, we’re so young and clean. So many things that we have never seen. Let’s move from Ohio, sell this dam’ old store. Big Apple dreamin’ on a wooden floorโ€ฆโ€ Vincent Furnierย  ย 

 

MY NYC 8 September 2024: โ€œSafe in my garden, an ancient flower blooms and the scent from its nature slowly squares my roomโ€ฆโ€ John Edmund Andrew Phillips

 

MY #NYC 5 September 2024 โ€œCan we fix our nation’s broken heart? Are we brave enough to try? Can we fix our nation’s broken heart and leave a better world behind?โ€ Stevland Hardaway Morrisย  ย 

 

MY #NYC 4 September 2024: Groovinโ€™ on the 2 & 4 in 4/4! Digginโ€™ FAITH NYC Live at Silvana Harlem NYCโ€ฆ.

 

MY NYC 3 September 2024 โ€œI wanna run, I want to hide I wanna tear down the walls that hold me insideโ€ฆ I wanna reach out and touch the flame where the streets have no nameโ€ฆ Paul David Hewson ย 

 

MY #NYC 2 September 2024 โ€œThere is a rose in Spanish Harlem. A red rose up in Spanish Harlem. It is the special one, it’s never seen the sun. It only comes out when the moon is on the run. And all the stars are gleaming. It’s growing in the street right up through the concrete. But soft and sweet and dreamingโ€ฆโ€ Ben E. King / Jerry Leiber

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MY #NYC 30 August 2024 โ€œThrough a fault of our designing we are lost among the windings of these metal waysโ€ฆโ€ Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Enoย ย 

 

MY #NYC 29 August 2024 โ€œThere ain’t no reason to tell no lie when you’re young and you’ve got a lot of pieโ€ฆ now I slink around like a killerโ€ฆthe things they say are just a lot of fillerโ€ฆโ€ James Newell Osterberg Jr.

 

My NYC 27 August 2024 โ€œNothing is planned by the sea and the sandโ€ฆโ€ Peter Dennis Blandford Townshendย 

 

MY #NYC 26 August 2024 โ€œEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mindsโ€ฆโ€ Marcus Garvey / Robert Nesta Marleyย 

 

MY #NYC 26 August 2024 โ€œWant some whiskey in your water? Sugar in your tea? What’s all these crazy questions they’re askin’ me? This is the craziest party that could ever beโ€ฆ don’t turn on the lightsโ€ฆ ’cause I don’t wanna see! Mama told me not to come! She said โ€˜that ain’t the way to have funโ€ฆ son.โ€™ Uh-huh!โ€ Randy Newmanย 

 

MY #NYC 2018 โ€œThe return of the Thin White Duke throwing darts in lovers’ eyesโ€ฆโ€ David Bowie Is Here Bleecker/Lafayette St. Subway Exhibitย 

 

MY NYC 25 August 2024 โ€œAnd when I see the sign that points one wayโ€ฆ the lot we used to pass by every day. Just walk away, Renรฉe you won’t see me follow you back homeโ€ฆ the empty sidewalks on my block are not the same, you’re not to blameโ€ฆ just walk awayโ€ฆโ€ Brown / Calilli / Sansone

 

 

MY NYC 22 August 2024 lORRAINE lECKIE lIVE @ ilon Art Gallery hARLEM nYC Ilon Art Galleryย 

 

MY #NYC 22 August 2024 “No, it ain’t judgement day. No, it ain’t Armageddon… it’s just the apple stretching and yawning, just morning. New York City putting it’s feet on the floorโ€ฆโ€ Grace Jonesย 

 

MY #NYC 20 August 2024 โ€œEveryone’s feeling pretty, it’s hotter than Julyโ€ฆ though the world’s full of problems, they couldn’t touch us even if they triedโ€ฆfrom the park, I hear rhythms, Marley’s hot on the boxโ€ฆ tonight, there will be a partyโ€ฆon the corner at the end of the blockโ€ Stevland Hardaway Morrisย 

 

MY #NYC 14 August 2024: โ€œIn the heart of Harlem, a renaissance blooms. A symphony of voices, in countless rooms. Jazz and blues, a soulful sound where creativity and spirit abound, Langstonโ€™s dreams deferred, Hughesโ€™ rivers flow, in every word, a peopleโ€™s echoโ€ฆโ€ (author unknown)ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 12 August 2024 โ€œThe heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground. There’s no room no space to rent in this town. It’s a beautiful day. Sky falls, you feel like. It’s a beautiful day. Don’t let it get awayโ€ฆโ€ Paul Hewsonย 

 

MY NYC 10 August 2024 โ€œI play the street life because there’s no place I canโ€™t go. Street life, it’s the only life I know. Street life, you can run away from time. Street life, for a nickel, for a dimeโ€ฆโ€ Wilber Jenningsย 

 

MY NYC August 2024 Random images…ย 

 

MY NYC 8 August 2024 โ€œFlowers never bend with the rainfallโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simonย 

 

MY #NYC 6 August 2024 โ€œIโ€™ve just seen a face, I canโ€™t forget the time or place where we just metโ€ฆโ€ James Paul McCartney

 

MY NYC 4 August 2024 โ€œIf you want me to stay, I’ll be around today, to be available for you to see. But I am about to go and then you’ll know, for me to stay here, I got to be meโ€ฆโ€ Sylvester Stewartย 

 

MY #NYC 20 July 2024 โ€œGone are the days, of the seek and the find. All in the name of easy come, easy go merry go round the mind. Step right up, catch it while you can, alligator hugger and the candy manโ€ฆโ€ Cris Jacobs ย 

 

MY #NYC 19 July 2024 โ€œAll the young girls love Aliceโ€ฆtender young Alice they sayโ€ฆif I give you myย  number, will you promise to callโ€ฆ wait โ€˜till my husbandโ€™s awayโ€ฆโ€ Bernie Taupinย 

 

 

MY #NYC 18 July 2024 โ€œWalk right out to the four-line track, there’s a camera rolling on her backโ€ฆ I sense a rhythm humming in a frenzyโ€ฆ.girls on film, two minutes laterโ€ฆโ€ Lebon / Taylor / Taylor / Taylor / Rhodesย 

 

 

MY #NYC 14 July 2024 โ€œI got the time. I got my feet. Let’s go hit the street. High in the city. I got my mace. You got your knife. You gotta protect your own life. I wanna stay alive in the cityโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed ย 

 

 

12 July 2024 MY #NYC โ€œAnd undulating always, like the tide, the devil’s bride is calling all toward her skirt. And in the loving folds there we will hide inside from any would-be sneak attack until it’s safe to journey backโ€ฆโ€ Robert Pollardย 

 

 

MY #NYC 3 July 2024 โ€œI have a positive hot gift, want one? A scoffer’s clutch karma issue, a nursery whip for men who skip. Want one?โ€ Robert Pollardย 

 

28 June 2024 MY #NYC โ€œWith the sinking of the sun I’ve come to greet you. Clean your hands and go to sleep, confess the dreams of good and bad men all aroundโ€ฆโ€ Robert Pollardย 

 

 

MY #NYC 26 June 2024 โ€œA live wire, barely a beginner, but just watch that lady go. She’s on fire, ’cause dancin’ gets her higher than anything else she knowsโ€ฆโ€ย  David Lee Rothย 

 

 

17 June 2024 MY NYC โ€œEverywhere I go people want to know, who I am. So, I tell them. I am the Serene King in a half-asleep dream, waltz across the battlefieldโ€ฆโ€ Robert Pollard

 

4 June ’24 MY NYCย  ย  ย โ€œAnd I’m sitting on a bench in Coney Islandโ€ฆwondering, โ€˜where did my baby go?โ€™ The fast times, the bright lights, the merry-goโ€ฆโ€ Taylor Swift / The Nationalย 

 

31 May 2024 MY NYC โ€œUp Madison, down Park… each time I turn a corner, I walk a little faster, pretending life is sweet, โ€˜cause love’s around the corner…. I walk a little fasterโ€ฆโ€ Tony Bennettย 

 

30 May 2024 MY NYC โ€œOh, my nuclear baby. Oh, my idiot trance. All my idiot questions. Let’s face the music and danceโ€ฆโ€ – David Bowieย 

 

 

30 May 2024 MY #NYC โ€œThere goes my hero, watch him as he goes. There goes my hero, he’s ordinaryโ€ฆโ€ Dave Grohlย 

 

MY N.Y.C. 30 May 2024 โ€œI love women, I think they’re great. They’re a solace to the world in a terrible state. They’re a blessing to the eyes, a balm to the soul. What a nightmare to have no women in the worldโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MY NYC 5/29/24 โ€œIโ€™m in a straightjacketโ€ฆ Iโ€™m in a padded cellโ€ฆa new disease is running through my veins…โ€ Stu Richards

 

โ€œMama pajama rolled out of bed, and she ran to the police station. When the papa found out he began to shout, and he started the investigation…โ€ – Paul Simonย 

 

MY NYC 24 May 2024 โ€œโ€ฆkids you better look around. How long you think that you can run that body down? How many nights you think that you can doโ€ฆ what you been doing? Who, now who you foolin’ โ€ฆโ€ Paul Simonย 

 

 

24 May 2024 MY N.Y.C. “Life, a transient odyssey, weaves a mysterious tapestry of moments that mold our very essence….”

 

Spaghetti Eastern Electro Dub Live @Silvana with MARK MURO in MY N.Y.C. HARLEM 24 May 2024 โ€œIf you’re tired of walkinโ€™ around and getting nowhere, I know, there’s a path that’s leading towards the master. Love, devotion and surrenderโ€ฆโ€ Carlos Santanaย 

 

MY #NYC 23 May 2024 After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang out. We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion, give an exhibition, find out what it is all aboutโ€ฆโ€ JJ Caleย 

 

MY #NYC 16 May 2024 Sign Language โ€ฆย 

 

MY #NYC 14 MAY 2024 โ€œThe king is gone, but he’s not forgotten. This is the story of a Johnny Rottenโ€ฆ it’s better to burn out than it is to rustโ€ฆโ€ Neil Youngย 

 

MY #NYC 12 May 2024 Paul Collins, Sal Maidaโ€™s Bottomโ€™s Up Band live at Bowery Electric with Mike Fornatale, Dennis Diken, Dave Amels, Dave Fosterโ€ฆย 

 

MY #NYC 8 May 2024: ย โ€œWe’ve got to judge the judge. We’ve got to find the finds. We’ve got to scheme the schemes. We’ve got to line the lines. Try to place the place where we can face the faceโ€ฆโ€ Pete Townshendย 

 

MY #NYC 8 May 2024: “Sign, sign. everywhere a sign. Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind. Do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read the sign?” Five Man Electrical Band

 

MY #NYC 7 May 2024 โ€œSee her picture in a thousand places, โ€˜cause she’s this year’s girl. You think you all own little pieces of this year’s girlโ€ฆโ€ย  Elvis Costelloย 

 

MY #NYC 6 May 2024: โ€œNow this is a song to celebrate the conscious liberation of the female stateโ€ฆโ€ Annie Lennoxย 

 

MY #NYC 4 MAY 2024 โ€œSomebody took the papers, and somebody’s got the key. But me, I’m down around the corner, you know, I’m lookin’ for Miss Linda Leeโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MY #NYC 3 May 2024 โ€œI’ll say goodbye to all my sorrow. And by tomorrow I’ll be on my way, I guess the Lord must be in New York Cityโ€ฆโ€ Harry Nilssonย 

 

MY #NYC 3 May 2024 โ€œI know what I know. I’ll sing what I said. We come and we go. That’s a thing that I keep in the back of my headโ€ฆโ€ ย Paul Simonย 

 

MY #NYC 2 May 2024 โ€œI get all the news I need on the weather reportโ€ฆ hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile. And here I am, the only living boy in New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simonย 

 

 

MY #NYC 1 May 2024 โ€œFor there’s Basie, Miller, Satchmo, and the king of all, Sir Duke. And with a voice like Ella’s ringing out, there’s no way the band could loseโ€ฆโ€ Stevie Wonderย 

 

MY #NYC 30 April 2024 โ€œWatch out world, comin’ at you full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle. And while you’re at it, better check that batter, make sure the candy’s in the original wrapperโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MY #NYC 29 April 2024 โ€œWell I’m beginning to see the light. Some people work very hard, but still they never get it rightโ€ฆ.โ€ Lou Reed ย 

 

MY #NYC 4.27.24ย โ€œI have my books and my poetry to protect me. I am shielded in my armorโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simon

 

MY #NYC 26 April 2024: โ€œI want the principles of a timeless muse. I want to eradicate my negative views. And get rid of those people who are always on a downโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MY #NYC 4.25.24 โ€œIt’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Please won’t you be my neighbor?โ€ – Fred McFeely Rogersย 

 

MY #NYC 15 April 2024 โ€˜Twas a sunny dayโ€ฆnot a negative word was heard from the people passing by. All the birds in the trees, and the radio’s singing songs, all the favorite melodiesโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simonย 

 

MY #NYC 8 April 2024 “Blue, blue, electric blue, that’s the color of my room, where I will liveโ€ฆwaiting for the gift of sound and vision…โ€ David Bowie

 

MY #NYC 5 April 2024 โ€œEvery day you’ve got to wake up and disappear behind your makeup. Take away your calendar watch and you can’t keep track until your heart attackโ€ฆโ€ Jimmy Destriย 

 

MY #NYC 4 April 2024 โ€œIn the big apple, scars embedded like tattoos. Ghetto love, protection from what’s coming at you. Keeping our heads up, maintaining self-esteem, and reminiscing on the Harlem Nights sceneโ€ฆโ€ Luther Vandrossย ย 

 

MY #NYC 4 April 2024 In the Heightsโ€ฆ.ย ย 

 

MY #NYC 4 April 2024 โ€œI was staying at the Marriott, with Jesus and John Wayne. I was waiting for a chariot, they were waiting for a trainโ€ฆโ€ Warren Zevonย 

 

 

MYย #NYC 1 April 2024 “Somebody took the papers. And somebody’s got the key. And somebody’s nailed the door shut that says, ‘hey, what you think that you see?” โ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed ย 

 

MYย #NYC 30 March 2024 โ€œEh Cumpari, ci vo sunari. Can you dig it? Yes, I can. And I’ve been waiting such a long time. For Saturdayโ€ฆโ€ – Robert Lamm

 

MYย #NYC 29 March 2024 โ€œIf you want me to stay, I’ll be around today, to be available for you to see. But I am about to go and then you’ll know, for me to stay here, I got to be meโ€ฆโ€ Sly Stone

 

MYย #NYC 28 March 2024 โ€œI’m going uptown to Harlem. If a taxi won’t take me, I’ll catch a train. I’ll go underground, I’ll get there just the sameโ€ฆ.โ€ Duke Ellington / Nick Kenny

 

MYย #NYC 27 March 2024 โ€œIs is. Therefore you are. I am. That I am. Let me be….” Leon Thomas

 

 

MYย #NYC 21 March 2024 “Take a risk and listen to the radio, click your heels at the bi-polar disco. Fly down the villa destination sign, everybody feels the days but waits for summer nightsโ€ฆ” Scott Weiland

 

MYย #NYC 20 March 2024 โ€œCaught between the twisted stars, the plotted lines, the faulty map that brought Columbus to New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed

 

MYย #NYC 19 March 2024 Three Views of a Secretโ€ฆ Jaco Pastoriusย 

 

MYย #NYC 18 March 2024 โ€œWoke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard, was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the wordsโ€ฆโ€ Joni Mitchell

 

MYย #NYC 13 March 2024 โ€œMama’s got a lover, a painter I am told. She’s getting out of real estate, for the art scene down in old Sohoโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MYย #NYC 13 March 2024: โ€œAh, but remember that the city is a funny place, something like a circus or a sewer. And just remember, different people have peculiar taste, and the glory of loveโ€ฆ might see you throughโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed

 

MYย #NYC 12 March 2024: โ€œYou know the day destroys the night; night divides the dayโ€ฆโ€ Jim Morrisonย 

 

MYย #NYC 7 March 2024: โ€œAs the twilight sunburst gleams, as the chromium moon it sets, as I lose all my regrets, and set the twilight reelingโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MYย #NYC 3 March 2024 โ€œOye cรณmo va. Mi ritmo. Bueno pa’ gozarโ€ฆโ€ Tito Puenteย 

 

MYย #NYC 28 February 2024 โ€œOld friends, old friendsโ€ฆ sat on their park bench like bookendsโ€ฆโ€ Paul Simon

 

MYย #NYCย  27 February 2024 “Man makes machines, to man the machines, that make the machines, that make the machines. And man and machine, will make a machine, to break the machines, that make the machines…” Pete Townshendย 

 

MYย #NYC 25 February 2024 “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan, Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happenโ€ฆ” Beastie Boysย 

 

 

MYย #NYC 23 February 2024 โ€œI couldn’t escape this feeling with my China girl, I’m just a wreck without my little China girlโ€ฆโ€ Iggy Pop

 

MYย #NYCย  23 February 2024 โ€œThey fought with their words, their bodies and their deeds, doin’ the things that they want toโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed

 

MYย #NYC 18 February 2024 Weโ€™re an American brandโ€ฆ. Bleecker & Boweryย ย 

 

MYย #NYC 27 January 2024 โ€œIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.โ€ย  Oscar Wildeย 

 

MYย #NYC 14 January 2024 โ€œI’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay, good morning, good morning, goodโ€ฆโ€ John Lennonย 

 

MYย #NYC 13 January 2024 “…just a perfect day, drink Sangria in the park, and then later, when it gets dark, we go home…” Lou Reedย 

 

MYย #NYC 7 January 2024 โ€œRainy day, dream away, let the sun take a holidayโ€ฆโ€ Jimi Hendrixย ย 

 

2021 – 2023ย 

MYย #NYC (June 2023) A Great Day in Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958 at 17 East 126th Streetย 

 

MY #NYC (31 December 2022) โ€œDrop me off in Harlem, any place in Harlem There’s someone waiting there, who makes it seem like Heaven up in Harlemโ€ฆ.โ€ย 

 

MYย #NYCย  26 May 2022 โ€œEyes without a face / les yeux sans visageโ€ฆ I’m on a bus on a psychedelic trip reading murder books tryin’ to stay hip, I’m thinkin’ of you, you’re out there so, say your prayersโ€ฆโ€ Billy Idolย 

 

MY #NYC (17 January 2022) โ€˜Neath the halo of a streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp, when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, that split the night, and touched the sound of silenceโ€ฆ.” Paul Simon

 

MY NYC 23 January 2024ย 

 

MYย #NYCย  (May 2022) โ€œIt’s up to youโ€ฆNew York, New Yorkโ€ A Mansion Diner denizen since I migrated to the Upper East Side in โ€™85โ€ฆ my sanctuary replete with black coffee, apple pie, and Sinatra on the sound system 24/7. A monument on York & 86th since June 1945โ€ฆchatty waitresses, culinary anonymity, egalitarian reception no matter what condition I enterโ€ฆ says Ed Levine: “Diners are so important because they are the greatest bastions of civility, service, and dare I say grace available to all economic strata in this country.”ย 

 

MY #NYC 26 January 2022

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MY #NYC 1 February 2022 “And I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone.. where the New York City winters aren’t bleedin’ meโ€ฆleadin’ meโ€ฆgoin’ home…” Paul Simon

 

MYย #NYCย  (May 14, 2022) โ€œYou don’t know what you’ll do until you’re put under pressureโ€ฆacross 110th Street is a hell of a testerโ€ฆโ€ Bobby Womack

 

MYย #NYC 11 December 2023 โ€œI think it’s the best, when I’m locked in the middle of New York city on Central Park ‘n’ West, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know it’s a mess, but you’ve got to be crazy to live in the city, and New York City’s the bestโ€ฆ.โ€ Ian Hunter

 

 

MY #NYC (April 2023) โ€œAsk the angels who they’re calling, go ask the angels if they’re calling to thee, ask the angels while they’re falling, who that person could possibly beโ€ฆโ€ Dave Grohl

 

MYย #NYC 9 December 2023โ€ฆout on the edges they’re mixin’ the colors, some they don’t like it, but me I don’t mindโ€ฆ Iggy Pop

 

MYย #NYCย  (July 2023) “Caught between the twisted stars, the plotted lines, the faulty map, that brought Columbus to New Yorkโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย 

 

MYย #NYCย  19 December 2023 โ€œ…everyone’s gazing at some body part. Thatโ€™s the nature of art..โ€ Iggy Popย 

 

MYย #NYC 12 December 2023 โ€œUntil you’ve seen this trash can dream come true, you stand at the edge while people run you through, and I thank the Lord there’s people out there like youโ€ฆโ€ Bernie Taupin

 

MYย #NYC 20 December 2023 โ€œSunday morning brings the dawn in, it’s just a restless feeling by my sideโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reed

 

MY #NYC (November 16, 2023) Dusk on the Upper East Side NYC…

 

MY #NYC (November 2023) Morning on the Upper East Side…ย 

 

MY #NYC 8 April 2023 โ€œThe traffic’s so noisy it’s a shock, sounds like fireworks or a gun on the next block, ah, hooky wooky with youโ€ฆโ€ Lou Reedย