http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:23:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633#comments Mon, 22 Mar 1999 05:29:56 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1633 Salvador Dalí came to New York for the first time in 1934. In a symptom of the Civil War to come, the provincial government of Catalonia had unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The subsequent street fighting terrified him and he would not return to Spain for many years. He was Catalonian Read More]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633/feed 0