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Belle Harbor-ites, Rockaway-ites, anyone living in a beach community, take note!
Fascinating that it got made at all — a labor of love, no question, for documentary filmmaker Robert Sarnoff — “The Block” on Amazon Prime is an of-the-moment portrait of the block in Belle Harbor, NY he lives on. At the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, near Jacob Riis Park, the block in question is Beach St. At that point the peninsula is all of four blocks wide; the film focuses exclusively on the residents of a single beach block.
Sarnoff and his wife Lynda must have been (and I hope still are!) beloved by their neighbors because they elicited often surprisingly frank comments along with the expected hosannas about what wonderful neighbors everyone is. How much of the humor is intentional and how much not is part of the fun in watching, particularly the first half of the hour-long film. It’s a heck of an editing job by Michael Belmont juxtaposing the comments.
The fact is many on the peninsula have been tested on their neighborliness repeatedly, demonstrating deep friendship and resilience in the face of many storms and other catastrophes. Two are at the heart of the second half: The crash of American Airlines flight a few blocks away just weeks after 9/11, and Hurricane Sandy, when ma
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The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from to There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty, religion, riots, voter registration, the Vietnam War, and other social issues. There are also requests for speeches, information, visits, assistance, critiques of other writers, autographs, reprints of his work, and other invitations. Some letters praise King’s activities, offer encouragement, convey donations, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize while others are critical of his positions or overtly hostile. In the outgoing correspondence, there are both carbon copies and handwritten drafts of letter from King and his secretaries. The subjects discussed in these communications include thanks for contributions, responses to requests, non-violence, status