Jean Zimmerman

Tag: Manhattan

  • My own personal cherry tree

    may not be the biggest or the buffest, but it is the best because I see it outside my office window every day. It grows outside the municipal building in our village. I’ve been looking forward to the moment it blooms. The cherry trees are not the only ones to boast the perfection of spring…

  • Spring, season of music and madness,

    is here. And magic. Trees are still budding out, but in planters on the street flowers bloom. At Hekate, a “sober bar” on Manhattan’s lower east side, there is a little of all three. The music is the band Maputi, with Nora Balaban on the mbira, Banning Eyre on guitar and Rima Fand playing violin.…

  • Kissing and strolling

    once went hand in hand on Manhattan, especially on bridges. For a long time iIt was even considered especially good manners for a gentleman to kiss a lady while on a bridge. (“What happened on the bridge stays on the bridge”) Reverend Mr. Burnaby, quoted in New York’s Morning Chronicle on April 19, 1803, said, “it is…