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Guest Diary• April 29, 2020

No Holds Barred: Lockdown thematics

Blair Sabol, who’s seen and heard it all, considers the outcomes of “Lockdown thematics” and what’s the fashion?...

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Gardens of Urban Delights

Guest Diary• April 28, 2020.
Barbara Hodes takes us on a colorful trip that “reduces her stress and provides the beauty and solace we all need right now.” And it all starts in the Flower District in Manhattan... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: In Defense of Excess

House• April 24, 2020.
John Foreman’s visit to another residence all in the same family, the Burden mansion on East 91st Street, next door to Mrs. Burden’s sister, Mrs. Hammond... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: The summer of disco and disconnect

Guest Diary• April 24, 2020.
AUGUST, 1973: As crazy as the world might seem these fraught days, it was pretty complicated and a cause for stress in 1973, too... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Preservation Matters

Across the Nation• April 23, 2020.
Augustus Mayhew’s history and photographs of the 1960s Modernist house, Quail High, now an architectural landmark in Palm Beach County... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: The Quarantine Conundrum

Guest Diary• April 21, 2020.
Blair Sabol is considering the change that comes after and when we’re all out and about again... READ MORE
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MISS Love

Guest Diary• April 20, 2020.
Denis Ferrara is back to pay tribute to his great friend Iris Love, who left us last week... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: Who Did What When?

Guest Diary• April 17, 2020.
Bob’s looking back through his archive of the 1970s when the world was being turned upside down (as usual), and his sketchbook was there to take down what he saw (and heard)... READ MORE
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What to Wear When: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Guest Diary• April 16, 2020.
Those girls Hilary and Karen from What To Wear Where are throwing down the gauntlet and taking us on a long ride by looking back whence we came. The gloves are off!... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Fighting to adapt

Guest Diary• April 14, 2020.
De-quarantined, Blair Sabol is looking at the world around her, “teched up” at home with our handheld devices providing TMI and public figures... READ MORE
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Jill Krementz Photo Journal: Remembering Irving Berlin

Guest Diary• April 12, 2020.
No Easter Parades this year but we can still make an effort to switch out those pajamas while commemorating Irving Berlin and re-running Jill Krementz's 2010 NYSD photo journal... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: Another Rescue Story

House• April 10, 2020.
Today on the NYSD we’re running another of our great, late contributor John Foreman’s Big Old Houses.  This week’s subject is Elm Court, the sprawling country mansion and estate of Mr. and Mrs W. D. Sloane. Mr. Sloane and his brother were heirs to W&J Sloane, a major furniture business in New York.  Coincidentally, last week we featur... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: The Times They Were a-Changin’

Guest Diary• April 9, 2020.
The Times They were a-Changin’ in New York in 1974 where Richard Nixon was the center of scandal, and Grace married a prince; and back in Manhattan, Bob was here, there and everywhere with his sketchbook and sharp eye (to match his memory)... READ MORE

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