DOOMED…The old Waldorf-Astoria hotel (left), completed in 1897, was scarcely more than 30 years old when it was demolished to make way for the Empire State Building. The former governor of New York, Al Smith (inset) led the corporation that knocked down the old hotel and erected the wo...
—Alfred Kazin,New York Times New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
I know it will fill in some of the blanks: https://fb.watch/giBC6xltbK/ A few more favorite photos from the week. Love this view. Photo by Laura. Light at night. Photo by Laura. A lovely week indeed. Laura Share this: Share grandkids, New York City, shopping, Travelogues Octo...