Christopher Columbus, an Italian sailing under the Spanish flag in 1492, was looking for a passage to Asia but arrived in the Caribbean instead. The subsequent events, which resulted in the establishment of the United States and numerous other countries in the Western Hemisphere, but also in the death and enslavement of thousands, can be debated as to which outweighs the other. I just carry a camera around the city taking pictures.

Columbus has retained a great reverence in American history; witness Columbus Circle and Avenue in Manhattan, Columbus, the capital of Ohio, and parades countrywide—and in the Italian-American community (re Cristoforo Colombo Ave., or 18th Ave., in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn).