Lunation, non amplius—a New York Halloween tale.

October 29, 2011 — 2 Comments

October 29^th

Beneath a crescent moon barely three nights old, snow fell over the city—too soon, too quiet. Its companions came next, silent as breath and old as memory.

It had been fifty-nine years since an inch of snow fell in Central Park before Halloween, only the fourth time since the Civil War era. Back then, the Silk Stocking blue bloods made The Seventh Regiment Armory (now the Park Avenue Armory) its social hub.

Elite military brass gathered in (more…)