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By Bill Primavera When I first moved to New York way back in the dark ages, I lived in a five-story walk-up called a cold-water flat that would be illegal today. And much of the furniture I gathered was from

By Bill Primavera Is anyone else here old enough to remember Dinah Shore, the songstress and television hostess from the 1940s to about ‘80s? She was a lovely lady with an open, genuine wholesomeness that America loved as they sang

By Bill Primavera We’ve all grown up with abbreviations and acronyms that probably originated at sea, such as SOS (originally for save our ship) to POSH (for portside out, starboard in). There are many others that developed on land for

By Bill Primavera Just as many people think that O. J. Simpson got away with murder in 1995, there was a similar case just over a hundred years prior to that bloody event where Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Mass.

By Bill Primavera When I moved from an 18th century home in Yorktown Heights with fireplaces in every room but the kitchen and bathroom to a new condominium in Trump Park, I was disappointed to find that the top-floor unit

By Bill Primavera My wife Margaret thinks that I’m a nut (hopefully just sometimes) because of some of my interests, a few of which might seem macabre. For instance, I’ve always been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden who

By Bill Primavera You never know where you’re going to find useful information to help with that glorious and sometimes challenging job of being a homeowner. As I coast the internet, sometimes I find the most useful information, mostly from

By Bill Primavera How exciting it was as a college student to rent my very first apartment on my own. After having lived for a while in a boarding house where I really had no privacy, sharing space with a