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Cruising Times Square in the 1970′s
by Jill Dearman 12/07/2005Neighborhood: Times Square
I was still young enough to like am radio. I hadn’t been exposed to the much cooler fm stations yet. Sometimes, when we drove into the city, my father listened to Bernard Meltzer’s call-in advice show. It wasn’t so psychology-based, just heavy on common sense and consumer advice. Women could find out how to get [...]
A Scene from Maiden Lane
by Marian Hailey-Moss 10/25/2005Neighborhood: Times Square
For some reason I was lonely, even though my dream of being a professional actress was coming true. He seemed lonely too. One day he was just there. He appeared in the lobby of the Maiden Lane Theatre on 44th Street. I was rehearsing my first New York City show, a revival of Under the [...]
Fiberglass Dogs
by Griffin Hansbury 09/27/2005Neighborhood: Times Square
There was a while when it seemed like every year New York played host to a parade of hand-painted fiberglass animals. The cows were the most famous. The German shepherds were a lot less famous and they disappeared from the streets pretty quick. But, here and there, you’ll still see one, sitting guard outside the [...]
Pregnant and Protesting The Lion King
by David Michaelson 09/01/2005Neighborhood: Times Square
I saw your ad for RNC experiences and thought I’d share mine with you. My wife and I participated daily in protests against the RNC and our organizing efforts were filmed by a documentary film crew from Spain’s CANAL+ network. When we first heard the Republicans were holding their convention in NYC, we were outraged. [...]
Shooting Fitty
by Matthew Roberts 03/14/2005Neighborhood: Times Square
"Different day, same shit, old mac, new clip Thirty two hollow tips, gloves, no rubber grip…" The reporter and I stand quietly in the underground garage. We don’t want to look like we’re interested in shooting anyone, in any sense of that word. Two minutes earlier the reporter received a call in the deli across [...]
Mickey Cooks The Tenderloin
by Donald Dewey 02/24/2002Neighborhood: Times Square
Imagine a 20th-century history of the United States that omitted the 1900s, 1930s, 1950s, and 1960s. Something of the kind has attended the chronicling of Times Square’s latest identity as Disneytown, Goofyville, or Mickeymart. Most accounts of West 42nd Street’s conversion have been content to say that for decades the district was a magnet for [...]
The Mestizas
by Debbie Nathan 01/03/2002Neighborhood: Times Square
This was late on a Saturday afternoon, in the half gloom of the subway station at Times Square. W and N and R trains were barreling through, and the girls stood on either side of the platform, each guarded by a patrolman, looking bored and despairing. They were just mestizas, the kind who were raised [...]
Strange Days at Glamour
by Maura Kelly 10/16/2001Neighborhood: Times Square
All the days have been strange since. Though I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to leave my friend Luke’s apartment, where I spent that Tuesday night, I woke up determined to get to work Wednesday morning. Life needs to go on, I thought. I walked out of Luke’s apartment building. The sidewalks were lonely; [...]
Profiteers and Souvenirs: An Ebay Story
by Debbie Nathan 10/11/2001Neighborhood: Times Square
I don’t tell many people about the E-Bay thing. I usually just do the easy version. Like today — four weeks later already — I walked into the salon and when the Dominican beautician who does my hair asked where I’d been (you know that question: “So where were YOU when it happened?”) I already [...]
Don Delillo and the Towers
by Vince Passaro 10/10/2001Neighborhood: Times Square
Last week ABC and Ted Koppel had on a panel of authors to comment on what has happened to our city and our world – the always-awful Maya Angelou, the cliché-laden David Halberstam, and two better sorts, NPR-favorite Bebe Moore Campbell and Jonathan Franzen. Whether it was Koppel or the facts that proved too much [...]
