Just like those long ago days when Florence brought in a crowd to her living room to try new things test old work play just play because it was all that matter...
...here in a walk-up apartment on the upper West Side, chairs were put out...
...food was devoured
...neighbors, friends, strangers gathered...
...and the host welcomed us to a night of music.
Then the singer began to sing...
...all those songs Florence listened to during dissolving afternoons and that very last night.
For a brief moment I was home. Back in Her New York.
Shopping for Santa Claus: Origins of Macy’s and the Holiday Icon
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In 1858, a retail revolution began at the bustling intersection of 6th
Avenue and 14th Street in New York City. Rowland Hussey Macy opened a dry
goods st...
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