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Running Amok on the Select Bus
by Rob Williams 01/17/2011Neighborhood: All Over, Featured, Uncategorized
People tell me that being shit on by a pigeon is good luck but from my point of view it was simply the second annoying thing that had happened to me that day. The first was when I was told that my cushy, if slightly soul-crushing, freelance gig with a New York publishing company was [...]
Scooter Boy
by Neil Stein 12/31/2010Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan, Park Slope, The East River
I was almost killed the other night. Really. That’s not so unusual because for the last number of years I’ve been riding my motor scooter all over New York. This has made me fair game for the city’s automobile drivers. Each trip I take turns into a mortality tale. I love riding my scooter. I’m [...]
Scary Scary Scary New York City
by Patrick J. Sauer 10/31/2010Neighborhood: All Over
Be afraid, they tell us. Be very afraid. I read the Timeses, the Newses, the AM New Yorks. I watch the Ernie Anostoses, listen to the Brian Lehrers, check out the NY1s, peruse the Gothamists, and call the 311s, only to end up hearing the same message, the ongoing drumbeat pounding in my brain in [...]
The Crack Van
by Connor Gaudet 07/31/2010Neighborhood: All Over, Carroll Gardens, Featured
I drive a van for a restaurant. Actually it’s several restaurants but they are owned by the same people. They have three restaurant locations and two cafes, but only one location has a full kitchen and bakery. All the food is prepared at this main location and then sent to the other various restaurant and [...]
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 [...]
