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Saint John the Divine: A Secret Garden in Morningside Heights
The grounds of Saint John the Divine Cathedral in Morningside Heights are stunning. They are also open to the community for strolling and contemplation.Peacocks roam freely through the gardens. or...
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White Birds of NYC
White birds abound on a walk through Morningside Park and the nearby grounds of Saint John the Divine. A lone egret, its long breeding plumes flowing in the breeze, fishes beneath the waterfall in the...
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Two-Eyed Prophecy of Spring
To gain wisdom and a vision of the future, Odin drank from Mimir’s well, and plucked out his own right eye to pay Mimir’s price. Here is my two-eyed prophecy for New York. I have read the signs,...
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Great White Peacock of Morningside Heights
I love my NYC neighborhood. Where else in Manhattan do the strange cries of peacocks echo through city streets? Three gorgeous, pin-headed, tiara-wearing peacock boys freely strut their stuff through...
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NYC Peacock on Hurricane Sunday
In the early evening on Hurricane Sunday, after Irene had blown by, I headed over to Saint John the Divine to find out how Morningside Heights’s three neighborhood peacocks had weathered the storm....
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Wandering Peacocks of NYC
The free-roaming peacocks of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue exert a strange fascination. In June, when a maintenance man rattled a cookie tin filled with food, the white...
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Peacock Razzle-Dazzle
As leaves drop from the trees and the city grows more monochromatic day by day, I offer you a dazzling reminder of late spring, when the three peacock boys of Saint John the Divine just couldn’t stop...
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My NYC Home Where the Peacocks Roam
After spending the better part of September on eastern Long Island, I’m home in NYC, where fall has thinned the trees in Riverside Park. Home in the city, where the peacocks roam. Our first day back,...
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Peacocks By Design
New York City’s three Cathedral peacocks have already begun their annual spring courtship displays in which they unfurl their insanely long, dazzling tail feathers, hold them up in a giant fan, and...
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