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| New York City Loves Boston |
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| Yankee Stadium - NYC |
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| Fenway Park - Boston - Home of the Red Sox |
As a writer in a global culture I begin to realize how discounted
all words are these days even within our own local cultures.
As such I begin to think that symbols and gestures as in differing
cultures trying to communicate is the best way to address some issues.
In the case of the tragic bombing in Boston and Boston losing its cherry regarding the global violence of a global culture’s possible birthing
pains, the fans in Yankee Stadium New York sang Boston Fenway Park’s favorite song “Sweet
Caroline” in solidarity by way of the Red Sox and paying respects to the people and victims in
Boston.
Well stated New Yorkers and Yankee fans.
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| The Brooklyn Academy of Music |
I never went to any Diamond concert but here I go with my story about Neil Diamond. I used to start work at 7AM in Rockefeller Center. On some days I would get off the express bus and walk over to 48th to a particular deli “Scott’s” that served a very tasty and cheap bacon and egg sandwich to go. This was in I think July 2001. Well anyway Scott’s is just off NBC’s glass front on the street for the Today Show. Well on this day at 6:30 the plaza was packed with 1,000 people and Neil was doing a warmup for the Today show at 7 AM. The crowd was absolutely on top of every music note and lyric, screaming, clapping, jumping. I stood across the street and listened for a bit and then sadly had to get to work three blocks away.
I remember walking along dark streets and hearing echoes of “Cracklin Rosie” bouncing off the walls of skyscrapers and remember it because it happened a couple of weeks before 911. I remember Neil Diamond with not only a fondness for his music but the memory I have of him in NYC before NYC changed on 911. Whatever.
~~ My Facebook Page, May 21, 2011
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