TMP is moving
March 21st, 2006Save as PDF
On March 30 the Schencks — and The Millennial Pedestrian — move from Manhattan to Providence, Rhode Island.
Our family has lived in this apartment since 1977. Our four children have grown up here. From the office window I can look at a little slice of beautiful Central Park, central in so many ways to my life these past three decades, central to my poetry, central I think to the mental health of the entire metropolis. How I will miss it.
On the other hand, we are told we should embrace change. So as TMP changes venues, you should expect to see some changes on the site. As I embrace my new surroundings, there will probably be images and poems that reflect that process as well as the setting itself.
And there will probably be a few elegies for my lost New York citizenship along with celebrations of my new discoveries.
March 21st, 2006 at 7:45 pm e
J:
I was jumping around your site, having prepared a brief message…then the message disappeared, either into your in box, or into cyber space.
We are thinking of you as you spend your last days in your apartment…it was tough for us to move out of 36 Clapboard Ridge Road, with the same memories associated with it..
but we didn’t have Central Park…don’t ever drop it from your blog…the “and other places” gives you room to maneuver…
but stay “centered”…the Park is a powerful symbol.
Love to you and Holly,
Han
March 24th, 2006 at 11:01 am e
On leaving the apartment on 96th Street: It is the only home I ever knew, or at least the only place that ever felt like home. I mourn with you.
March 27th, 2006 at 9:03 am e
Where will I stay in the next blackout?
March 29th, 2006 at 2:19 pm e
John,
Joy and I have lived in our home in Ellicott City MD since 1974. I don’t want to think about trying to clean out the clutter and move. Good luck and enjoy your new digs.
Jim
May 12th, 2006 at 7:44 am e
I feel like one of the lucky ones — already spent a nite on the pullout in the guest bedroom at the new Schenck apartmen . Not that it was the best sleep I’ve ever had but, as Schecnk keeps saying, Providence is a lot quieter than Madison & 96th in Manhattan, AND those windows in the new place … you can see almost forever.
Something else seems different, too. J — when I got home and showed Sam the pic of you and Holly in front of one of those mega-windows,, she(wife Sam) remarked: they look great! John’s lost some weigh, I think.
So, chnage is good. I guess. That’s what Schenck says. And Holly and Johnny are handling it with great aplomb and enthusiam.
Scheck even bouhgt a bright blue Mini Cooper ‘S’ now that he has a second parking spot in the Providence garage, and promises to take any former Hotel Schenck/Manhattan habitues tooling around those seven hills at break-neck speed.
Good luck. Good poetry. Good friendships!
xoxo Hoyt, SE