When Billy Joel refers to the UWS’s Riverside Drive in New York State of Mind, he says “I don’t care if it’s Chinatown or it’s Riverside.” I don’t know a lot of specifics about Chinatown, but I do know a thing or two about Riverside Drive and it’s easy for me to see how this “street” can put anyone in a “New York State of mind…” A number of years after I moved to the UWS in the 1980s, I met an elderly woman, Rosemary White, who had made her living as a model and a showgirl back in the … Continue reading A New York State of Mind on Riverside Drive