Knickerbocker Village

by Phillip Lopate

A block or so north of the Brooklyn Bridge, just behind the old New York Post Building, between Catherine and [...]

Village Cowboys

by Deborah Soffel

During my junior year of high school my mother announced to me that I was unfit to be lived with. [...]

Straight Talk on Hair Village

by Rachel Sherman

Check out Rachel Sherman’s new book!**No one who does Japanese hair straightening at Hair Village is Japanese.You can’t have highlights [...]

Hotel Edison

by Roberta Allen

Since my father’s suicide in the Hotel Edison, I made sure never to pass that hotel. I would not even [...]

David Zuva: Shoemaker

by John Bowe (interviewer)

My name is David Zuva. I’m from Russia, from Odessa. I’ve been here twenty years. I’m a shoemaker. I repair [...]

Volunteers of America

by Betsy Berne

My buzzer rang. It was 4:30 in the afternoon on one of those eerie perfect blue sky 60 degree days–eerie [...]

Summer Expectations

by Robert Bingham

If I didn’t have the summer to look forward to, I might just cap myself.Think about the glory of planning [...]

A Visit From The Red Cross, and Abc, Nbc, Cnn…

by Betsy Berne

During the past few weeks, representatives from Red Cross have been going around to people who live below Canal St [...]

Brookti & Me: A Story of Adoption, Episode #2

by Betsy Berne

The introduction to this column, and its first episode, can be read here.**Episode #2:I expected freaky racial—and class—‘episodes’, which are [...]

James Bogardus:
The Inventor’s Triangle

by Dorothy Spears

Bogardus was a watch-maker and inventor who was awarded thirteen US patents and one British patent, for clocks, spinning machinery, [...]