Curled up in a corner of the couch, Kiesha Jenkins begins working her needle and thread through the fabric.
Kiesha’s bagel-wearing pigeon was a big hit.
The delicate design that is emerging, chain stitch by chain stitch, is of a female swimmer diving into the pool in Astoria Park in 1936, the year it opened.
Kiesha, who has shiny, springy Goldilocks curls and buttoned-down horn-rims, stops stitching long enough to lament the fact that the diving pool is gone – it has been turned…
