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How I Got All of New York to Cheer For Me On My Morning Run
by Connor Gaudet 05/08/2009Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
This past 2nd of November, I walked two blocks from my apartment to 4th Ave in Brooklyn to watch the 38th running of the New York City Marathon. However, rather than being inspired, I immediately felt jealous. The cheering crowd shouting the runner’s names and shared nationalities as they ran by giving a quick nod [...]
Sex, Craigslist, and Murder
by Daphne 05/02/2009Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
The Craigslist murder of Julissa Brisman has left me wondering about my own choices as well as those close to me. Brisman’s murder by alleged killer Philip Markoff is a scary fact of what can happen when using the Internet for dating or other activities. I’ve been an avid fan of online dating for years [...]
The Decalogue: Ten Short Stories about Ten Short…Long Years
by Patrick J. Sauer 03/23/2009Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
March 2009 will mark the ten-year anniversary of returning to New York City. The first year I lived here, in 1993-94 was a blur: an apartment in the Bronx, working with kids at a neighborhood center, $10 all-you-could-drink Saturday nights at Rockridge on Bleecker, 6 a.m. 4-train rides home, and smoking blunts with the janitor [...]
Marie’s Golden Cue
by J.H. Palmer 10/04/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Brooklyn
A couple Sundays ago my husband and I played pool, something I haven’t done in years. I’d been invited to an appreciation party for volunteers of the Old Town School of Folk Music, a Chicago institution that recently celebrated it’s 50th anniversary. I’ve never attended an OTSFM volunteer party, but this one took place about [...]
Bittersweet Victory
by Nicole Tung 08/19/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
About a hundred of them went. They left their wives, children, friends and girlfriends. Some left school, others their jobs, to fly halfway across the world to fight in a war for, they say, their people, their identity and their independence. The independence, gained almost a decade later, came at a cost. For Florim Lajqi [...]
The Pool Boy
by Patrick J. Sauer 08/05/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
It was the day after the August 15, 2003 blackout. Greenwich Village still didn’t have any electricity. It was roughly 107 degrees outside, so my wife, Kim, and I headed to the healing waters of our neighborhood pool. Strike one. The closest sanctuary — Tony Dapolito pool on 7th & Clarkson — was closed, so [...]
Richard is a Forkhead
by peter nolan smith 06/14/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
I drove a stolen car from Boston to New York in 1976. It wasn’t really stolen. A Back Bay lawyer paid $300 for the disappearance of his Olds 88. I left the Detroit gas-guzzler by the Christopher Street pier. It was after midnight. I switched the plates and left the keys in the ignition. Within [...]
Surviving the 5 Boro Bike Tour
by Bryan Charles 06/01/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
This winter I spent two months in Michigan working on a book. Halfway through my stay my girlfriend called and said her parents were visiting New York soon, coming from California to ride in the annual Five Boro Bike Tour. She said they wanted us to do it with them. I said I’d think about [...]
Madame Butterfly Goes Down
by Thomas R. Pryor 05/04/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
Saturday night, I had smelly cheese, cashews, black bean dip, spooned Hellmann’s and three Coronas for dinner. I over-bought crap for company, it’s causing me stomach problems, but I have to finish the stuff. Sunday morning, I met a writing editor on Cathedral Parkway who took too much money to tell me too little about [...]
It Was Me (part 2)
by Hane Selmani 01/13/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
After our engagement my family had decided that I would be allowed to talk to Fatmir on the phone. When my niece was engaged she had to make secret phone calls, but my family was modern. In anticipation for the phone call Asllan and Behare went out and took Sokol’s three boys. My Mom and [...]
It Was Me (part 1)
by Hane Selmani 01/06/2008Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
It was me, the girl standing in front of the Krusq, the wedding party, wearing a wedding dress. How did it happen? What went wrong? I had asked God to change things. I didn’t like the man I was going to marry — but I had no choice. “On the day you were born God [...]
The Subway Game
by Albert Stern 01/04/2007Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
My subway epiphany came when I moved back to New York after a seven-year absence in the early 1990s. In the time I had been away, the subways had been vastly improved, and were no longer a place of thoroughgoing menace. The interior surfaces of the well-ventilated car I rode in were gleaming and graffiti-free [...]
