Archive for March, 2005

De Gates Be Always Wif Us

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

A friend writes, “Seven-fifty a.m. on this sunny Sunday morning, I left my apartment and strolled up Central Park South to catch the IRT Uptown at Columbus Circle. There was something odd about Central Park, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. The south entrances to the Park look much as they have for the past few weeks, all joyously decorated with orange gibbets and billowing curtains.
“Aha! That’s …