NOVEMBER 9– HELLO LOVE! IT’S THANKSGIVING WEEK IN THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!

As Pearl S. Buck who has been around says on her plaque in Grand Central Terminal (see if you can find it on your holiday trip in),

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

Miss Buck said that in the 1930s, and she should see The Big Town now.

Thanksgiving Week NEXT WEEK  is a week when New York City turns up the volume with sites and experiences you will find around every corner.

Saturday, Brenda Starr and I took Metro North into The Big Apple to see a play and on our trip New York City showed off. The energy makes you feel young again–always.

 

At Grand Central Terminal, we toured the Holiday Market featuring artisans from all over, which just dazzled me with the range of creativity displayed and celebrated the creativity of the human spirit.

 

A FIREGLASS PIECE: “THE DARK PLANET”

 

“EVERYBODY GOES TO VIC’S” IN NOHO..Try the “Eggs in Purgatory” for $16–IT IS SOOOO HOT NYC

AND YOU CAN HEAR YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER ACROSS THE TABLE

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP WHERE THE AVANT GARDE PLAYS OF THE FUTURE PLAY NOW!

AROUND EVERY CORNER YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE HERE THE INCREDIBLE HYDRAULIC NEW YORK CRANE THE GMK 6400 THAT LIFTS 450 TONS 450 FEET! FULLY EXTENDED! NOTHING LIKE A “NEW YORK CRANE”

 

COME ONA DOWN TO THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD FOR THE HOLIDAYS JUST FOR THE THRILL THAT NEVER STOPS! 

AND ALWAYS LOOK UP!

 

 

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NOVEMBER 8–THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA’S HOMETOWN PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS USA

THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA’S HOMETOWN: PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS

 

WPCNR Thanksgiving Portfolio, all photos by WPCNR:

On this Thanksgiving, let us remember the band of hardy intrepid souls who crossed an ocean in a boat no  bigger than a large Chris Craft and settled in an unforgiving landscape and started a country in the cold landscape of New England.

They were immigrants.

They were helped by Indians who welcomed them, without Indians’ compassion they would not have survived. And, remember, those pilgrims were immigrants.

A salute to this brave band. A salute, too, to the indians who accepted them without visas, without jobs, with no background checks no green cards. No border wall. No cages for children. No fear on the part of the Indians and their humanitarian leader, Squanto

The pilgrims sailed into a bay, dropped anchor and just carved out a living after living in incredible conditions in a ship’s hold for weeks, crossing the storm-tossed North Atlantic. Here are some views of America’s hometown by the WPCNR Roving Photographer.

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Plymouth Rock Landing. Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The Mayflower II. Plymouth Harbor.

Indian Statue of Squanto welcoming the Pilgrim Settlers. Plymouth.

Governor William Bradford Statue on the Shores of Plymouth Harbor

“Plymouth Rock,” The landing place of the pilgrims.

Settlers Home, left, circa 1690.

Church, Plymouth late 1700s. .

The Jury: Old Burial Ground, Plymouth. Last resting place of the pilgrims overlooking Plymouth Harbor. The sacrifices, bravery and perseverance of these persons stand as examples to Americans today.

How are we doin’?

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NOVEMBER 7–TONIGHT MEET THE MAYOR ON WHITE PLAINS WEEK. AT 7:30 PM ON FIOS CH 45 AND OPTIMUM 76 OR WWW.WPCOMMUNITYMEDIA.ORG

 

WPCNR NEWSMAKERS MEET THE WINNER OF THE MAYORS RACE TONIGHT.

TONIGHT, WHITE PLAINS WEEK INTRODUCES THE NEW MAYOR OF WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK USA–the winner of Tuesday’s election.

You will see the interview John Bailey conducted with the winning Mayoral candidate and learn again his plans and priorities for the city.

You if you did not see revealing profile of the winning candidate you can familiarize yourself with the new Mayor’s priorities and what you can expect in his first term.

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NOVEMBER 6– YOU BET YOUR LIFE. A BULL ALLEN RETROSPECTIVE OF BASEBALL AND GAMBLING

WPCNR VIEW FROM THE UPPER DECK By “BULL ALLEN” November 6, 2025:

Hello there everybody,  this is Bull Allen greeting you from the old Yankee Stadium in the shadow of late autumn.

Now that the World Series is over, this memory of the third game of the 1956 World Series is a fitting melancholy to another intriguing season fraught with change, in rules, in attitudes and vagaries.

As I look down from the Mel Allen Broadcast Booth in the old mezzanine I see fans departing in a few days Don Larsen will pitch a perfect game saved by Mantles over the head backhand catch to save a double in left center.

I am also saddened by the big white-lettered sign “NO BETTING” a reminder of the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919, when the Pale Hose contrived to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Eight players were thrown out of baseball for life when the scandal came to light by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball’s first Commissioner.

it is 106 years this October since these 8 players threw a World Series.

How sad it is that the excitement of baseball players and pitchers and batters and fielders adjusting to the no shifts rule, the pitching clock, the batters’ 9 seconds be ready rule, have made baseball more exciting, and as I wrote October 2 that it has been overhadowed by baseball selling itself to the gambling industry.

Gambling commercials are in Yankee games. Baseball promotes gambling on broadcasts, even has relationships with them.

Baseball as the 1919 World Series proved is easy to fix. Nowadays bets are accepted on possible outcomes of at bats during games by gambling companies.

It was made even more startling when prominent NBA players were named as being involved in promoting fixed poker games.

If it can be done with NBA stars, it can be done with baseball stars.

More horrifying to me is how spots on gambling on baseball broadcasts and television broadcasts listened to by teens and children tells them gambling is good.

Gambling is a drug every bit as addictive as hard drugs and alcohol.

It may not kill you but you are betting your life if you develop a gambling habit.

It is a terrible thing to advertise on a baseball broadcast.

Baseball is now making so much money  from it that it will never give it up until of course another World Series is fixed.

Baseball used to be wholesome.

It is not any more with this gambling thing.

Here is Bart Giamatti’s farewell to the 2025 season…

 

 

 

 

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