Across The River

Photos: © Stan B. I was walking out of my mother's nursing home when I was hit with the hottest wind I ever experienced in my life, unnaturally hot, radioactively hot, and having grown up in NY, having experienced many a NYC summer, I realized- this is most definitely not normal! It was 98 degrees that day and the major reason I wasn't spending extended periods of time pounding sweltering midtown…