![]() Interspersed with her reminiscences are encounters with a diverse cast of characters she meets as she walks. I won’t say much more about Lillian’s past, as I don’t want to give too much away. She made a name for herself as an advertising copywriter for Macy’s and a light verse poet. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do.”Īs she walks, Lillian reflects on the nearly 60 years she’s spent in New York City. “Whenever ‘everyone’ is doing something, I seek to avoid it. It doesn’t matter – Lillian will do as she pleases. Her friends and loved ones would prefer she take a cab on this particular night, as the Subway Vigilante remains at large. It clears her head, it keeps her healthy and it gets her out among the masses, which she seems to live for. ![]() Lillian, 85 (or is she 84?), sets out on New Year’s Eve 1984 down the streets of Manhattan. Martin’s Press editor Hope Dellon: I want to be Lillian Boxfish when I grow up. ![]()
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