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Dope
by Jared Mazzaschi 04/25/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Williamsburg
*This story is written from the perspective of the author's former roommate. The names have been changed but all events happened as stated. Andy is being a serious cocksucker and holding onto my money. He won't give me any. He says it's for my own good and that I'll just go and spend it on [...]
Scaffolding
by Thomas Beller 04/18/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Financial District
Once upon a time, when I was a teenager working as a bike messenger, I would stop midway across Central Park, somewhere along the North side of the Great Lawn, and take a break to regard the skyline along the park's southern edge. I was always hoping to see signs of new construction. This would [...]
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading Series, April 18, 7 PM
by Connor Gaudet 04/09/2013Neighborhood: Featured, News
Our April reading will be stories on the topic of Fleeting Connections, as read by Neighborhood contributors Fran Giuffre, Trevor Laurence Jockims, Robin Kilmer, and Ken Rosen. Hosted by Rob Williams.
The Circle Line
by Mary Gordon 04/02/2013Neighborhood: Across the River, All Over, Featured
She throws an envelope onto the kitchen table, vaguely in my direction. She has written my name on it, and underlined it twice. I know what’s in it: it’s my birthday and inside it there will be, as always, a check. I am only ten-years-old, and I do not exactly know what to do with [...]
Of Love and Real Estate
by Alba Brunetti 04/01/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Park Slope, Prospect Park, Windsor Terrace
Breaking up is hard. That’s true even if you’ve been thinking about it a long time – weighing the scales back and forth. Am I better staying in this thing or am I better getting out? Sometimes it can go on for years, like it did for me. Because parts of it were perfect and [...]
That’s My Daughter In The Water
by Trevor Laurence Jockims 03/27/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Upper East Side
Getting your two year old daughter into a bathing suit in a men’s changing room can be a bit like stuffing an eel into a pillowcase. For some reason I thought the smart move would be to undress myself first, get my trunks on, my flip-flops, grab my towel, then shed Hana down to her [...]
School Spirits
by JB McGeever 03/20/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Jamaica
I’ve been teaching Writing and Literature in New York City’s public school system for almost nine years. This spring, my former building will graduate its final class just shy of reaching the century mark. The school’s phase-out process followed the usual script that no ‘education reformer’ cares to discuss: a decent school declared dangerous, unable [...]
Of Landlords and Cousins
by Elena Schwolsky 03/03/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Sunset Park
Of Landlords and Cousins My landlord visits our brownstone apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn at least three times a week to “fix” something. He is a saxophone player from the city of Odessa on the Black Sea in the Ukraine---a city I have never visited but feel a connection to because my grandparents were born [...]
Zone A
by Tom Diriwachter 02/27/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Staten Island
Hurricane Irene bared down on the East Coast, while my mother was in the Vent Unit of Staten Island University Hospital, on a respirator and recovering from her second abdominal surgery. Located in South Beach, designated Zone A, the hospital faced mandatory evacuation. A team of medical personnel, including her surgeon, the Director of the [...]
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading Series Returns!!!
by Connor Gaudet 02/03/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Lower East Side, Manhattan, News
Thanks to the valiant efforts of Neighborhood contributor, Rob Williams, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Reading Series is back in the Lower East Side! The monthly reading series will premiere this month at 7 PM, Thursday, February 21 at Dixon Place - 161 Chrystie St (between Rivington and Delancey), and be on the third Thursday of every [...]
Pizza at the End of the World
by Tom Diriwachter 01/15/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Staten Island
My apartment building, across from the ferry, in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, fared well against Sandy. From my window, I saw the water rise above the seawall, and swallow the municipal parking lot, but situated on the hill, I never felt threatened. When the power went out, I was watching a DVD [...]
Hurricane Kingdom
by Marie A. Sabatino 01/07/2013Neighborhood: Featured, Lower East Side
It was like the prom. Only it wasn’t the prom. It was Hurricane Sandy. All the anxious preparation, the heart slightly aflutter, the pure angst and nervous excitement all at once. What to buy in advance, who to spend the night with, hell, even what to wear. It was Monday afternoon on the Lower East [...]
