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The Fracas at Washington Square Park
by Sam Lipsyte 03/25/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
The late great comic Bill Hicks once said, famously, apropos the first gulf war: “I find myself in the unenviable position of being for the war — but against the troops.” Nobody that I’ve heard has come up with a similar corker this time around, a line which can sum up the personal confusion and [...]
Cristina
by Snooder Greenberg 02/17/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
There are some guys whose pattern is to realize a supposed deep love once they know a woman doesn’t want them. Maybe that explains me and Cristina. Maybe guys like me can’t love at all, so we mask our loveless souls with occasional dream loves, pure in their unobtainability. We safely suffer limited devotions at [...]
Milk & Chocolate
by Elisha Cooper 02/09/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
We’re walking through the Village, it’s freezing, and we’re trying to find a place that has both good hot chocolate and is a good place to breast-feed. It’s not easy. I have nothing to do with the breast-feeding (having no breasts), but I feel responsible for finding the location to do it in. The place [...]
Kristopher Medina: Stunt Double
by Interview by John Bowe 01/20/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
In 1991, I was a student at New York University, working at a bookstore, and this woman came up to me out of nowhere and basically asked me to come audition for her film. She was a casting director for this PBS Masterpiece Theater thing. The part was for a quote-unquote “little person.” I’m four [...]
Unfinished City
by by Said Shirazi 12/02/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village, Multiple
Lately when I go for a walk I make a vow not to walk under any scaffolding, in protest of there being so much of it these days. Two minutes later I realize I’m walking under scaffolding. One day I stopped and looked at the scaffolding around the NYU tower at East 8th Street and [...]
A Star Shines in Marie’s Crisis
by Virginia Vitzthum 11/24/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
I don’t like show tunes and don’t really understand how any one does. But the idea of piano bars intrigues me the same way pick-up basketball games and gay sex clubs do, as a place where men get to play with strangers. So when my mus ical theater friends Jim and Andy invited me to [...]
Street Fighting Woman
by Jane Ratcliffe 04/05/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
World Gym, upstairs, is fresh with creamy white paint and music, while beat-driven, played at an appropriate level. There are the requisite scantily clad Spandexed women and the scantilier clad hyper-muscled men. But there is a civility, a sense of propriety, a lovely calm to this gym that the trendy joints are lacking. Downstairs, however, [...]
The God of High School
by Rachel Cline 03/20/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
I don’t think I thought of Eli every single time I walked down lower Seventh Avenue, but I may have. His parents’ West Village brownstone had been a shrine to me in high school insofar as Eli, himself, had been a god. When passing it back then, I craned my neck at the upstairs window [...]
On the Steps of Club Salmagundi
by Adam Brightman 02/04/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
In the summer of 1980 I was living on East Fifth Street and First Avenue with Alpha Lorraine and I was eighteen, feeling not so much on top of the world as right in the middle of it. Alpha was a new friend and when Yves, my French dancer friend from when I was a [...]
Next Door
by Ken Howe 02/01/2002Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
About a week after the WTC attack we began to hear weeping from the apartment next door. It came to us in the middle of the night, while we were sleeping, a small, very private sound that forced its way into my thoughts until I found myself lying awake listening to it. Its volume rose [...]
Scaffolding
by Said Shirazi 11/21/2001Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Lately when I go for a walk I make a vow not to walk under any scaffolding, in protest of there being so much of it these days. Two minutes later I realize I’m walking under scaffolding. One day I stopped and looked at the scaffolding around the NYU tower at East 8th Street and [...]
Cheering the Rescue Workers
by Kate Walter 11/12/2001Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
I saw summer turn to fall on the median of the West Side Highway where I stood waving my American flag, holding up hand made thank you signs, saluting the rescue and recovery workers. The crews, coming from long shifts, appreciate the support. When they pass in their various vehicles, (fire engines, police cars, ambulances, [...]
