Behind Closed Doors
Morning baseball. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Warm muggy-ish day, yesterday in New York. Sunny in the morning and early afternoon, and clouding over around four. Followed by a light...
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2:00 AM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Friday, June 21, 2013. Beautiful day, yesterday in New York. Sunny, warm and mild. Today is the First Day of Summer, the Summer Solstice. The Sun is at its highest point...
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Sunset on a sidestreet. 7:15 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Monday, June 24, 2013. A beautiful sunny first Summer weekend in New York. It turned very warm and humid in the late afternoon yesterday, just as...
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Moon over Manhattan. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Very hot in New York. And humid. The A/Cs whirr their massive dull roar into the streets of the night. We’ve been lucky so far this...
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A three-hatted family. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Another very warm and humid day in New York. The kind that subtly saps your energy so that by the end of the day you just feel...
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A family walk in Central Park. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.July 1, 2013. A very warm, quiet weekend in New York with the weatherman forecasting thunderstorms, flash flooding and even maybe a tornado. Not....
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Walking along Central Park West. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Rainy days, off and on. New York hasn’t had the rain that was predicted. In fact it’s been mostly dry with occasionally...
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The Statue of Liberty. 9:30 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Monday, July 8, 2013. Very hot weekend in New York. The kind of heat that just won’t go away. You’d walk outside after dark and it was swarming...
View ArticleRemembering Cynthia Lufkin
Cynthia Lufkin in her Upper West Side apartment in 2008. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Partly sunny, partly cloudy and very warm in New York yesterday, but not as humid as the weekend,...
View ArticleThe joke’s on me
Manhattan skyline from the southeast. 10:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Yet another very hot day, yesterday in New York. Although this time there were some torrential showers...
View ArticleNostalgia on a hot summer day
Pen, paper, and phone. 1:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Monday, July 15, 2013. A week of dog day afternoons according to the weather forecasters’ pretty accurate predictions. And after the past two weeks...
View ArticleHot you can run away from
Sailing away on the Hudson. 5:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Very very warm in New York. Hot you can run away from (remove your hand from the hot stove). Warm you’re stuck, and...
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Sunset, Hudson River. 8:30 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Thursday, July 18, 2013. Hot in New York. What can I say? I caught a cab at 55th and Sixth after the Michael's lunch. I got in and the guy says: "do...
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Deserted playground. 2:30 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Friday, July 19, 2013. Weather the same old story. We’re havin’ a heat wave. The experts say relief comes tomorrow. Good news but not soon enough....
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Grapefruit moon. 1:00 AM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Overcast, cooler, but still muggy, with intermittent light rain from mid-afternoon through evening. It’s been worse lately; much...
View ArticleIt’s Summertime
New York Life Building and The Empire State Building. 9:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Temperatures in the 80s, but it’s Summertime, and not so humid, thankfully. A beautiful...
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Looking north towards downtown Manhattan. 4:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Thursday, July 25, 2013. Sunny and warm but decidedly milder yesterday in New York, with temperatures dropping to the low 70s by...
View ArticleLove and Marriage and Divorce
Subway searching. 3:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny Summer day in New York.I never take vacations. I don’t say that to boast. I think it’s the...
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Taking in the city. 5:00 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Warm, sunny Summer’s day, yesterday in New York.Yesterday I went to lunch with Cornelia Guest at Michael’s. Cornelia just...
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Letting the air in. 4:30 PM. Photo: Jeffrey Hirsch.Thursday, August 1, 2013. Beautiful weather in New York. Temperatures in the high 80s but not humid. Breezy by the river. It was Wednesday. I went to...
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