A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives and a few deaths of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
Backstage With Barbara Ann
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Backstage With Barbara Ann
EVA-LIS WUORIO
IN THE half-light of a Manhattan dawn last December a slender girl, her blond hair in pigtails, walked across Lexington Avenue from a small residential hotel to a small all-night restaurant for breakfast. It was too early for the hotel coffee shop to be open.
She was carrying a skating costume in a rawhide overnight bag and a pair of skates in red leather bags, and with her was a straight-backed, middleaged woman in a grey English flannel suit, a tartan bonnet and a long tartan scarf.