It's Very Nice To Go Traveling, But It's So Much Nicer, Yes It's So Much Nicer, To Come Home

I'm working on my old laptop (and it's slow as..) as I wait for repair on main squeeze. Yet another hard drive I've wrecked. Anyway I found this Sinatra gem looking for a slide show movie home. I found it with some pictures that I newly discovered on the "official" knickerbocker village site The site, along with the knickerbocker wiki site (all it does is concentrate on the Bonanno crew) doesn't do justice to the topic. This line from it bothers me:
"During the nineteen forties and fifties, the complex was home to Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and executed. It would seem that their activities were orchestrated from their apartment."
That makes it sound like their were regularly scheduled meetings or something. And does it imply with a lead up to that statement that "Many of the early residents were socialists and the complex was a hotbed of tenant activism at the time," that their neighbors were involved? I don't know maybe I'm just sensitive (or in a pissy mood) but
I believe and many others believe that the evidence linking Ethel to the case was weak and compromised and there was absolutely no need for her to be executed and two young boys, contemporaries of mine and my friends, to grow up without a mother. In fact her existence on death row was being used to try to get Julius to make some late confession. Well apologies for spoiling the joyfulness of this slide show and the great Sammy Cahn lyrics. Maybe I'll revisit this post later:

It's very nice to go trav'ling
To Paris London and Rome
It's oh so nice to go trav'ling
But it's so much nicer, yes it's so much nicer, to come home

It's very nice to just wander
The camel route to Iraq
It's oh so nice to just wander
But it's so much nicer, yes it's oh so nice, to wander back

The mam'selles and frauleins, and the senoritas are sweet
But they can't compete 'cause they just don't have
What the models have, on Madison Ave.

It's very nice to be footloose
With just a toothbrush and comb
It's oh so nice to be footloose
But your heart starts singin' when your homeward wingin' across the foam

And you know your fate is
Where the Empire State is
All you contemplate is
The view from Miss Liberty's dome

It's very nice to go trav'ling
But it's oh so nice to come home

You will find the maiden and the gay muchachas are rare
But they can't compare with that sexy line
That parades each day at Sunset and Vine

It's quite the life to play gypsy
And roam as Gipsies will roam
It's quite the life to play gypsy
But your heart starts singin' when your homeward wingin' across the foam

And the Hudson River
Makes you start to quiver
Like the latest flivver
That's simply dripin' with crome

It's very nice to go trav'ling
But it's oh so nice to come home

Wow: I don't think it would be so nice now
"to just wander
The camel route to Iraq"


Note the last slides have to do with this:
On May 31, 2007, Lieutenant Che Yuk Chan who is assigned to the Knickerbocker Village Security Staff by Cambridge Security Inc. was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by both Knickerbocker Management and Cambridge Security.

This award was presented in appreciation for the lieutenant’s actions on Saturday May 5, 2007. On this date a tenant turned in a woman’s handbag which contained credit cards, keys and nine hundred dollars in cash. The only identification in the bag was a slip for a doctor’s appointment with the woman’s name on it, the lieutenant called the doctor’s office and explained the situation leaving his name and number. The following day a much relieved owner of the purse called to claim her property which was returned intact.

The lieutenant’s actions exemplify the quality of personnel that Knickerbocker Village has strived to provide it’s residents. In addition to the certificate Lieutenant Chan was awarded a hundred dollars from both Knickerbocker Village and Cambridge Security.

Making the presentation were Mr. Vincent Callagy Building Manager, Mr. Steven Stanley Assistant Manager, as well as Mr. Stanley Czwakiel Vice President of Cambridge Security and Mr. Winston Murray Account Manager of Cambridge Security.