And Caviar Dreams

"Popping the cork" on 151st Street and Union Ave, Bronx

In his latest letter from the editor, Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter pulls a long drag and blows hard:

As the nation wilted during a prolonged midsummer heat wave, evening-news weather maps showed that the red states really are red. Many of the heat-wave segments I watched featured clips of city kids cooling off under the spray from opened fire hydrants. I don't know where they find them—in almost 30 years of living in New York City, I have yet to see one of these quaint urban scenes with my own eyes.

You don't say, Graydo? It's difficult to fathom the shortage of sidewalk slip-n-slides and watersport fiddle-faddle outside of the Dakota or on Bank Street, but I guess when you drive around town in a champagne-colored Lincoln Navigator SUV, it's hard to notice any bubbly on the outside.