Who was Higgins? He was an Irish immigrant who arrived in the USA in 1860. This was originally built as the Charles Higgins residence. The living room features a room separation featuring Civil-war era cut glass, which, Charles claims, was repaired after a recent accident with the original cutting stone he located in Cobble Hill. Charles and his wife Vita have appointed the house with vintage furniture as well as two vintage pianos: a 1920 Steinway Model “O” in the cupola, and a 1913 Steinway Concert Grand in the downstairs living room. When it was built, Park Slope was open country. It’s been the home since 1981 of jazz musician and teacher Charles Sibirsky.
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On 9th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, edging toward Gowanus Canal, stands a magnificent stucco house, a textbook Second Empire style with a slanted mansard roof, moldings, bay windows and best of all, a cupola open on three sides. Instead, I wound up in a Park Avenue type shop and later, as a copywriter at Macy’s in 2000, which lasted me a few years.Īll this ink recollection brings me to Charles Higgins. And I can’t muster up much interest.Ī recent bit of internet research reveals that the magazine published between 19, so I would have been cast into the wilds of Farmingdale just a few months after I started, had I taken it. In short, I would have had to be very enthusiastic about ink. In any case I think I did well at the interview and I think the job could have been mine for the taking, but I didn’t pursue it, given that I would have had to do the same routine to get there and back every day from fabulous Flushing, and I would have had to attend ink conventions and ink manufacturers’ business meetings. I believe it involved a LIRR ride to the Farmingdale station and then a shuttle bus.
Frankly, I don’t completely recall how I arrived, then, as now, not driving a car. The business, part of the Cygnus magazine organization, was located in a corporate park in Farmingdale in Suffolk County. A number of years ago, I believe it was in 1999, I interviewed for American Ink Maker Magazine.
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