The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away

[Jim Parish]

Laurence Horn wrote, of "Avenue of the Americas":
>  I know other countries and cities go in for those long names, but we
> Americans (and especially we New Yorkers) are too much in a hurry.

Hm. I remember a Chicago bus driver who loved, at the appropriate
point, to sing out "DOC-tor MAR-tin LU-ther KING MEM-o-RI-al DRIVE".
(Everybody else I knew just called it "King Drive".)

Jim Parish

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