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In New Jersey, exiled from NYC

Big John of Park Slope

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Thousands of hours of pirated live recordings (reel to reel) of NY Philharmonic, going back 4 decades. 12,000 albums, from 78 to 33, in alphabetical order, mostly classical music and opera. 5,000 books. 7,000 video tapes of movies. 5,000 cd's. I begged him to digitize his reel to reel collection and donate it anonymously to the Library of Congress. Maybe you can convince him.

The size, the quality of the classical music section, the amount of films on video.

In his townhouse, from basement to third floor, full to the brim.

When you visit, you get treated to seven or eight versions of the same aria from Rigoletto, sometimes with the same artist but different productions.