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Credits
by Thomas Beller 12/16/2009Neighborhood: Uncategorized
Editor/Publisher: Thomas Beller Managing Editor: /* Design and Architecture: /* Senior Editors: Bryan Charles, Elizabeth Grove, Carolyn Murnick, Stephanie Schragger, Elizabeth Frankenberger, Elisha Cooper (Illustrations) Design Consultant: Josh Mack Contributing Editors: Alexander Chancellor, Joanna Yas, Sabin Streeter, Betsy Berne, Marisa Bowe, Matthew Roberts, Dorothy Spears, Josh Gilbert, Tom Cushman, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Jonathan Ames
Graffiti
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 05/12/2008Neighborhood: Lower East Side
On Saturday night I walked from my apartment on the Lower East Side over to Housing Works in SoHo. It was a little after 8:00 at night and my intention was to spend a few pleasant hours drinking coffee and reading Grapes of Wrath. It was also a way to give my wife some time [...]
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood’s Greatest Hits: A Truncated Retrospective
by The Editors 06/09/2006Neighborhood: Multiple, SoHo
Hello. The 6th Anniversary of Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood is here, and the time has come to pay tribute to the site’s past. So many pieces are coming in all the time, piling up on the surface of the site, that it’s easy to forget how much terrific work has accumulated in the deeper layers of [...]
The Truth Hurts: Fiction, Memoir, and Publishing Today
by Thomas Beller 05/12/2006Neighborhood: Financial District
At the height of the scandal over the inventions in James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces,” I was thinking about “Westchester Burning” by Amina Wefali. “A Million Little Pieces” is about a man and his addiction. “Westchester Burning” is about a woman and her marriage. Any resemblance between these two very different books is limited to [...]
Biking through the Apocalypse
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 02/22/2006Neighborhood: Union Square
There is no commuter more unqualified to weigh in on the effects of the transit strike than a cyclist who lives and works in Manhattan – which is me. I have been riding a bicycle in the city for the last 12 years and have become so reliant (addicted might be a better word) on [...]
Mocking People Who Vote Differently Than You
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 11/11/2004Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Twenty years ago, almost to this very day, my tenth-grade history teacher, Mrs. Alexander, decided it would be an important lesson for us students if our class was to conduct a mock vote for president. And without further ado, slips of paper containing the names of the candidates and their running-mates were distributed throughout the class, [...]
9/11 Archive
by Thomas Beller 12/26/2002Neighborhood: Multiple, World Trade Center
The View From the Seventieth Floor by Sandy Gelpieryn Death Masks at Ground Zero by Kendra Hurley The Numbers by Bryan Charles The View From Silver Lake Park by Gabrielle Walter Don’t Look Back by Kevin McLeod Scenes From The Brooklyn Bridge by Jim Merlis The View From Long Island Part Ii by Adam Baer Ob Gyn Wtc by Kevin McLeod On Giving Blood by Carolyn Murnick So Big Vitality by Christian Bonnard He was [...]
Lost and Found: Stories From New York
by Neighborhood Writers 08/08/1998Neighborhood: Manhattan
Lost And Found: Stories From New York, the latest anthology from Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, is now available at your friendly neighborhood independent bookstores and at the following online booksellers: Powells Amazon Barnes and Noble News and Notices: “Lost and Found can be jarring, making you feel happy at one turn, uncomfortable at the next. It is unsettling in places, serendipitous [...]
Frank Davidson
by Thomas Beller 01/01/1970Neighborhood: Uncategorized
** Hasn’t Detroit suffered enough? Without being included in Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood? To that, we provide the simple answer that the purpose of the new Detroit-themed section of the website is not to draw attention to the ways in which the city has suffered in recent decades, which are well known. Anyone who has seen [...]
Lost And Found: Stories From New York
by Thomas Beller 01/01/1970Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Lost And Found: Stories From New York, the latest anthology from Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood is now available at the following online booksellers and at your friendly neighborhood independent bookstore. Powells Amazon Barnes and Noble Lost and Found, Volume II of the series, is a mosaic of voices, drawing on the diverse experiences of such New Yorkers as a frequent [...]
