Madeleine L’Engle, who died at 88 in 2007, wrote poetry, plays, a memoir, books on prayer and many novels, as The New York Times put it–”as if she were taking dictation from her subconscious.” She wrote her first story at five. This is why, when I recently learned that Madeleine L’Engle, the author of one of literature’s most enduring works of fantasy fiction, lived for years in the Clebourne, my very building on West End Avenue, I was doubly glad I never moved to the Upper East Side, which I considered for a full day in 1994. But my favorite thing about our ‘hood is how its vibrant history always makes me wonder whose ghost is walking the streets beside me. To start, the Upper West Side has two beautiful parks, two subway lines, and two Trader Joe’s. Among Rag readers, it’s preaching to the choir to say our neighborhood has much to recommend it.
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