GLOBE TROTTER GUIDESERIES % NEW YORK SUBWAY ( TRAIN # 5)

TRAIN # 5

Marsha Kenol, 18,  a college student introduces our new series Globe Trotter Guide, talking about subway:

Trains aren’t the only things on earth that run deep. Though many do not take into consideration the importance of such an invention, trains are ‘to-the-rescue’ when buses and automobiles fail to get from point A to B. Many may not question this, but why is the ‘Subway’ so unique? Well, I am not an expert. But what I can say is that the Underground subway signifies something deeper than what we see, deeper than what we think. Consider the depth of yourselves the next time you decide to take a train underground, because trains aren’t the only things on earth that run deep.

In fact, not only trains run underneath. People also do. 

But, while people hurry at rush hour to get the first train and go home, subway comes any time at our rescue when streets are empty and taxi drivers unavailable. What makes subway life unique? We stumble upon stores, play, and a lot of ordinary people trying to make a living. Especially at winter, when coolness is there after having chased squirrels, beggars, and almost everything that used to be booming at sunny times.

Subway system is unique and complicated.  Hope we’ll master it with time. But, even there, the system is changing. Better jump in the next train.

• FLATBUSH BROOKLYN COLLEGE CONNECTION - 2 TRAIN
• NEWKIRK CONN: # 2
• BEVERLY RD % 2
• CHURCH QVE5 2
• WINTHROP % 2
• STERLING ST % 2
• PRESIDENT ST % 2
• FRANKLIN % 42-3- SHUTTLE
• ATLANTIC AVE % 4-2-3-B-D-N-Q-R
• NEVINS ST % 2-3-4
• BOROUGH HALL % 2-3-4-R

• BOWLING GREEN ( STATEN ISLAND)  % 4
• WALL ST % 4
• FULTON ST  2-3-5-Q-6-J-Z
• BKLYN BRIDGE % 4-6-J-Z
• UNION SQUARE 14 ST % 4-5-F-M-Q-R
• GD CENTRAL % 4-5-7-S
• 59 ST % 4-6-E-N-Q-R
• 86 AV % 4-5
• 125 % 4-5

• 135 % 2/4
• 3TH AV % 2
• JACKSON AV% 2
• PROJECT AV % 2
• SIMPSON ST % 2
• INTERVAL AV % 2
• FREEMAN AV % 2
• 174 ST % 2
• WEST FARMS ST ( E TREMONT) AV % 2
• E 180 ST % 2
• MORRIS PARK
• PELHAM PKW( WINCHESTER RD)
• GUN HILL RD ( SEYMOUR AV)
• BAYCHESTER AV
• EAST CHESTER DYRE AV
• BRONX PARK  E % 2
• P,PKWAY ( WP RD) % 2
• ALTERTON AV % 2
• BURKE AV % 2
• GUN HIL RE ( W.PLAINS RD) % 2
• 219 ST & 2
• 225 ST % 2
• 233 ST % 2
• NEREID AV % 2

TRAIN # 5

Stations / Cross Streets	Subway Transfers
			BRONX -North of East 180 St to Eastchester-Dyre Av / 233 St
			Eastchester-Dyre Avenue / 233 Street
			Baychester Avenue / Tillotson Avenue
			Gun Hill Road / Seymour Avenue
			Pelham Parkway / Williamsbridge Road
			Morris Park / Esplanade

			Stations / Cross Streets	Subway Transfers
			BRONX -North of East 180 St to Nereid Av
			Nereid Av  White Plains Rd
			233 Street / White Plains Road
			225 Street / White Plains Road
			219 Street / White Plains Road
			Gun Hill Road / White Plains Road
			Burke Avenue / White Plains Road
			Allerton Avenue White Plains Road
			Pelham Parkway / White Plains Road
			Bronx Park East / White Plains Road

			Stations / Cross Streets	Subway Transfers
			BRONX
			East 180 Street / Morris Park Avenue
			West Farms Square- E Tremont Avenue / Boston Road-Bronx Zoo
			174 Street / Southern Boulevard
			Freeman Street / Southern Boulevard
			Simpson Street / Westchester Avenue
			Intervale Avenue / Westchester Avenue
			Prospect Avenue / Westchester Avenue
			Jackson Avenue / Westchester Avenue
			3 Avenue-149 Street
			149 Street- Grand Concourse
			138 Street / Grand Concourse
			MANHATTAN
			125 Street / Lexington Avenue
			86 Street / Lexington Avenue
			59 Street / Lexington Avenue	(  with MetroCard )
			Grand Central-42 Street / Lexington Avenue
			14 Street - Union Square/ 4 Avenue
		Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall / Centre Street
		Fulton Street / Broadway  (southbound only)
		Wall Street / Broadway
		Bowling Green / Broadway
		BROOKLYN
		Borough Hall / Court Street  (Northbound only)
		Nevins Street / Flatbush Avenue
		Atlantic Avenue / Barclays Center
		Franklin Avenue / Eastern Parkway
		President Street / Nostrand Avenue
		Sterling Street / Nostrand Avenue
		Winthrop Street / Nostrand Avenue
		Church Avenue / Nostrand Avenue
		Beverly Road / Nostrand Avenue
		Newkirk Avenue / Nostrand Avenue
		Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College/ Nostrand Avenue

PEOPLE: JENNY MEZILE

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frican and Caribbean music are going to be known at their best as the new generation of dancers and singers are bringing back their music to their roots.  In so doing, these artists are giving more emphasis to what in the past colonial l time had been so despised. Among the new comers, Jenny Mezile  has a special place.

Living in Paris, France, Jenny used to work with Africa based groups. Traveling between European countries and the African continent, Jenny undertakes a kind of pilgrimage to the source. As a result, she is giving birth to something new, looking at the same time at opera and Black ritual performances. Furthermore, it is interesting to uncover African instruments and watch the way musicians get the best rhythms to match the new feeling Jenny expresses.

Jenny Mezile  brings to the stage grace, movement and sensuality. The Dahomey Zepol, the dancing body language with the shoulders, along with the gazing and attitude toward life and others, means first of all her pride, will, and commitment to her purpose and goal.

Jenny Mezile is experiencing the mixing of Afro-Caribbean music. Even though apart by seas and continents, these rhythms share a common origin and racial background.

Ms Mezile used  to perform  in Florida

GLOBE TROTTER NEWSLETTER: LEXINGTON KEEPS ITS FRENCH TOUCH

LEXINGTON AVE : AN ENDLESS FRENCH TOUCH

Even in the middle of this still faltering economy, Lexington keeps its glamorous look and attractive way of life. Lexington Ave extends far away, crossing so many streets and neighborhood that nobody can miss it. It is a landmark on its own. Not too large, but big enough to house a lot of businesses, some of them bustling at the eve of this chilling winter. So far, Lexington doesn’t stop from shinning.

It is what we  had witnessed, a week ago under rain and this coolness already there.

But, Lexington keeps luring tourists and passersby for something else. This something else has something to do with a kind of French magic, so to speak.

A few years ago, French named restaurants such as Sel & Poivre, and other  with a French touch had been catching our eyes because besides, many people have  been eating out by the sidewalk, along apparently pedestrian streets under the trees’ shadow. But, this time, although  many have gone, as if swallowed by the American dream turning nightmare, French pulse and Parisian  way still persist and permeate some streets and corners. Really, there exists a French stubborn tradition that makes the difference.

We understand why the Martinique-born mangager Isabelle cannot avoid smiling at Mon Petit Bistrot Cafe

PIERRE BAZIN A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER

PIERRE BAZIN, A WORLDWIDE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER 

A photographer specialized in  photo shooting model, Mr. Pierre Bazin   envisions a global photography business where he'd like to display pretty girls eager to show off. The model business industry mixes  art, passion and obviously money like you can imagine. However business wise his job might be, Mr. Bazin like his doing. 

From theWaldof Astoria, Lexington, Manhattan, Ernst Racine, the former Vice president of the American Tennis Association, has been talking to Mr Bazin on the 7 December at dusk about this next move. Show his models at their best seems the main concern of the photographer. 

Mr. Bazin knows how to join the both sides:: the pretty and the  utilitarian.

GLOBE TROTTING ( ANKARA, TURKEY)

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urkey  even today remains for westerners  a startling  land with people mostly locked up in the past, but opening more and more.  Some years ago, as a  matter- of- fact, the NY Times had been reporting about the Turkish elite youth spending time in discos and dressed with jeans.  However, despite such upside down move, Turkey seems very remote and close at the same time. It seems that past continues to permeate every aspect of the daily life.  I wish to be wrong…

Let’s go down  to the streets at Ankara...

First at all, I still  remember the day  I  met a Turkish woman at the Frankfort airport. She was then in the mid sixties, with a big head, the Turkish head. We were chatting, but, my new friend was showing a lot of reluctance to exchange address and more. Apparently aware of literature and politics, this  woman with a beautiful command of the French language, didn't want to go further. I'm  still amazed by her acknowledge of Pierre Loti , the French writer who authored a good deal of adventure novels. "you heard about Azyade", she told me, sure of what she was talking about... 

Ankara is a bustling place, alongside the European neighborhood where French, British and other nations mix up."Nice people" remembered a witness who loves Turkey. She remains most of the time in beautiful hotels , overlooking the city. Ankara is relatively new, but Turkey soul is present everywhere,  as shown recently  in a photo exposition in Grand Central, NY, NY

THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE

THANKS GIVING SEASONS

Jim Nix de Nomadic Pursuits wrote, a few days ago by the Thanksgiving Holiday:

Happy Thanksgiving! To anyone who reads this and is celebrating Thanksgiving today, I wish you a wonderful holiday. For anyone reading this who is not celebrating Thanksgiving today, I wish you a wonderful day just as much. No sense in keeping the thanks just to Americans, is there? *Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop* [image: Today-I-Am-Thankful.jpg] I have 

Masha Kenol at the Family  Thanksgiving Diner
Massapequa, LI

PEOPLE & RACES IN AMERICA

AFRICAINES

Les Tresses de Harlem....

Senegalaises, Ivoiriennes, Maliennes,Guineennes

Parmi les Africains, les femmes africaines véhiculent un message identitaire qui n’échappe à personne.

Sénégalaises, guinéennes, ivoiriennes donne à Harlem, notamment sur la  125 eme rue, non loin de Central Park, une couleur que l’art, la danse, et la chanson au temps de Langston Hugues sont loin d’éclipser, malgré tout le tapage qu’on a fait autour de la Renaissance d’Harlem. Tenant des salons de coiffure, certain bien pourvus, les Africaines s’affairent à faire ces fameuses tresses qui  sont  vite devenues une sorte de « black speciality ». Sans doute, nécessité oblige, ces oursuivent elles aussi le cote prosaïque et quotidien du rêve américain. «  Ce n’est pas toujours facile, affirment certaines patronnes, il y a des jours ou l’on ne gagne presque rien. Mais, en revanche, « on ramasse un peu d’argent, disons 2 ou 300 dollars par semaine », nous confie une sénégalaise qui semble ne pas avoir froid à l’ œil.

Elles sont plusieurs  dans une salle parfois spacieuse à s’occuper de faire des tresses. Il arrive qu’elles soient deux à se partager une seule et même tète. « C’est ma sœur » affirment-elles le plus souvent. C’est une sorte de partage oblige ; 25 dollars pour une coiffure qui vous occupe une bonne partie de la journée. Faire des tresses est une œuvre de patience, donc de solidarité dans cette Amérique du chacun pour soi.

Harlem  reste le quartier général de l’Amérique noire au temps de la Renaissance. Plus de ségrégation, sans  doute, mais l’instinct grégaire et coloriste garde encore ses droits. En témoignent  les pancartes et les attroupements au  début du mois de novembre  réclamant justice pour le jeune noir Trevan abattu par Zimmerman en Floride. Evénement qui n’en finit pas de faire des vagues.

N’empêche que ces Africaines vivent dans la crainte de l’Immigration. Elles n’ont pas de papier. Ce qui crée une sorte de phobie du visiteur, fût-il innocent.

Là encore l’Afrique n’est pas sortie de la peur

Elles font des tresses

L'AFRIQUE A ENCORE PEUR

AIRLINE HAITI ..THE SKY BATTLE

UNDER A SKY ALREADY BLUE...

THE BATTLE FOR THE SKY
By frantz bataille former director of Le Petit Samedi Soir

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here are neither army planes rumbling on Port-au Prince, the Haitian capital, nor parachutists ready to land somewhere in this Caribbean city, but, even in this  still and uneven landscape, Boeings and Turbo-jets from big worldwide airlines tell about what kind of destination Haiti had become over the years: a sunny and warm heaven, bathing at the heart of Mexican gulf.

Mr. D. Needleman
the Brazilian American
entrepreneur

Airlines had fought so much since the mid 60s when Haiti got a niche in the world map. By this time, KLM, AA and very soon Eastern Airlines would take over. Delta, Air France and Pan Am were already history, waiting for better times. Haitians then had been boarding small planes at the military aviation of Bowen Field, before spending time in Jamaica or Porto Rico   and being connected to big aircraft. Now, after some exhausting saga and bad times, AA became the king of the Haitian sky although Air France, Delta and Spirit had managed to have a piece of the cake.

The coming of Jet Blue this week, with its first flight to P-au-P, told us a story of competition and open market. However, regardless of privileges and some policy of kickbacks, jet Blue, as blue as the Haitian sky, some people notice, breathes  a new life, like those migratory birds carry on what is left from the North with its icy weather. As a color, blue is a relaxing shade. Jet Blue merits its reputation of poetry and romantic airliner that it got from the beginning.

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ack to tourism, Haiti is still renowned for its smiling people and moderate weather.” The place is still warming and warm” everybody acknowledges.  Canadians adore the sunny Caribbean, and among its scattered islands Haiti makes the difference, they conclude. A booming market for tourism, Haiti is living a unique momentum in its current renewal process.

This new airline under a sky always blue adds and mixes comfort, elegance and low cost. Provided with large individual seats and a huge leg room, Jet Blue gives access to internet and TV screen where you can choose your chain and movie while cruising at 30.000 feet above the sea. What it’s really new for Haitian customers.  Other airliners offer magazines, food, beverages, wines, snacks and so forth, but, it seems that Jet Blue wants something more than just business. His CEO David Needleman  …once said: Jet Blue looks to bring humanity back to air travel.

Mr Needleman who founded this company in 1999 came from Southwest airlines where he’d learned about low cost flight. Despite ups and downs, especially in February 2007 due to snowstorm and bad weather, Jet Blue kept growing and even bought new planes. Millions dollars vanished in smoke in the first decades of 2000, but optimism and imagination are also tools in open market.  Jet Blue crossed a Red Sea of its own, before beginning to earn more money against  Wall Street expectations. Now, JB is cruising under so many skies from America to Asia that “sun never sets in its lands”

It is this airline of a globalization era that will land that Thursday 5 December 2013 in Haiti.

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HIJACKING OF PLANE LAID TO HAITI'S REDS

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PORT - AU - PRINCE, Haiti, April 10 -- Foreign Minister Louis Mars accused the Communists today of responsibility for the hijacking of a Haitian airliner and the murder of its pilot.

IVORY COAST

Ivory Coast authorities still pay the rent to the French government considered the de facto owner of the presidential palace at Abidjan. Some Ivory Coast citizens start voicing their anger for so.

NEUROTHEOLOGY

Dr Andrew  Newberg

Newberg: Well for me neuro-theology is really the study of the relationship between religious and spiritual practices, experiences and phenomena and the human brain. That's the simple answer. For me, for neuro-theology to work as a concept I like the define and neuro and the theology side very broadly, so the neuro side includes the brain, but also includes psychology, behavior, all the different aspects that make up who we are as people, including our health. From the theology side it'snot just theology itself, but it's religious ideas, experiences, practices like meditation and prayer with the ultimate goal of kind of trying to bring these two disparate approaches or ideas together. Is there a way that we can use science to help inform us about religion and spirituality and are there ways that religion and spirituality help to inform us about science?

So to me neuro-theology is a very multidisciplinary integrated kind ofconcept, which gives us a lot of options to look at going into the future.