I Heart...

In the coming days, there'll be lots of talk about New York.  The New York I want to introduce you to is the one that exists here.

If you think you know Brooklyn from the Battery; if you want to know if Wall Street was named after a wall; if you want to know about what they tried to kill on September 11th... and know exactly why it is that that never could have happened... experience this American Experience... a documentary by Ric Burns. 

I first saw it in 1999, when it first aired on Channel 13... [New York's PBS station].  There is poetry in the prose; there is music in the images; there are haunting images in the soundtrack.  Find it.  Watch it.  Live it.