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Spring

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

In spring, it is hard for me to stay home and tend to my computer. “Celebrate with me,” the world says. “Forget the cooking, the cleaning, your endless projects. Play. Your springs are numbered. How many more times will you … Continue reading →

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The 58th Annual Winter Antiques Show

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

In my innocence I believed that armories, whose function is to keep soldiers in shape between wars, were frill-less, like gyms. This is not so in the case of the Park Avenue Armory, built for the prestigious Seventh Regiment of … Continue reading →

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788 Riverside Drive

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

“To leave is to die—a bit.” This French proverb came to my mind the other day when C., my former Riverside Drive neighbor, called to congratulate me about a magazine article extolling America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural … Continue reading →

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The Child in Me…

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

…insisted that on the last day of 2011 I go to Fifth Avenue to share the city’s unabashed holiday spirit. Sidewalks in Midtown were unbelievably crowded with people from all over the world: Spain, France, Germany, Asia, and South America … Continue reading →

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Museum of the American Indian

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Suzanne Loebl

During the thirty-nine years I lived on Riverside Drive and 156th Street, I overlooked the Audubon Terrace, the common front yard of a series of small museums. In 1839, James Audubon acquired a large tract of land and built a … Continue reading →

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