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Vivian Conan When the mommy who loved me was there, I didn’t know about the mommy who hated me. October 23, 2020 In third grade, I wrote a short story about a girl who lost her mother in a fire. When a policeman finally reunites them, the girl says, “We meet at last.” A lifetime later, after many ups and downs between us, my mother and I also met at last. I was in my sixties, she in her eighties, when she said, “It’s love at second sight.” This chapter from my memoir, Losing the Atmosphere: A Baffling Disorder, A Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood, shows how our c...

The NYPL's 1902 Ceremonial Tiffany Trowel arrow The Ceremonial Trowel Courtesy of the NYPL On November 10th, 1902, a prestigious crowd gathered at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street for the laying of cornerstone for the New York Public Library, a newly-incorporated organization formed from the wealth and literary collections of John Jacob Astor, James Lenox, and Samuel Tilden. Among those in attendance for the historic occasion were Mayor Seth Low, Reverend W.R. Huntington, Catholic Archbishop John Murphy Farley, and John Bigelow, president of the library's board of trustees...

BirdsEyeBrooklynBridge-major-1883 SOLD Title Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Display of Fire Works on Opening Night.   1883 (dated)     Description Perhaps the most dynamic and dramatic Brooklyn Bridge View, this is the 1883 A. Major four-color chromolithograph bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge during the opening day celebrations. Then known as the 'New York and Brooklyn Bridge' or the 'East River Bridge' (it would not be officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge until 1915), fireworks erupt from both stone towers and the center of the span. Indi...