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Big Apple for the Teacher
by J.B. McGeever 04/24/2005Neighborhood: Multiple, Outer Boroughs
So you’re teaching again. No, not the cushy adjunct work at the college where you got the MFA. This will be the crack your knuckles, roll up your sleeves type of teaching that New York City has to offer. Once you realized that The New Yorker was just as happy to ignore you with or without [...]
A Reading with Joe Tarot
by Annie Bruno 03/01/2005Neighborhood: Multiple, Union Square
It was a muggy Manhattan afternoon in August, and I was between movies. Not because I didn’t have air conditioning, but because I needed to distract my angry, heartbroken self, and movies, carefully spaced, were my drug of choice. I had seen La Ultima Baci at the Sunshine on Houston Street and was on my way to [...]
On Eavesdropping
by Debra Castellano 02/27/2005Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
“And three weeks later I found him dead in his apartment,” I overhear an old man say to his friend as I pass them on a street in the West Village. It’s all I get–the one, disembodied line. Another day, another street. I pass a man and a woman, and at that instant the man says: [...]
Love and Heartbreak in New York
by Coastal 02/13/2005Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
THE GOD OF HIGH SCHOOL by Rachel Cline ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF NOT SEEING HER AGAIN by Alex Jablonski CHRISTINA by Snooder Greenberg WEDDING PROPOSAL AT CAFE LOUP by Meghan Daum and Thomas Beller MAKING IT by Kendra Hurley THE KEPT BOY by John Epperson SEGWAY SIGHTINGS by Maud Newton BUTCH & NANCY by Jenni Olson THE JEWISH HOLLY-GO-LIGHTLY by Jonathan Ames THE LIGHTED WINDOW by Charles D’Ambrosio MY SISTER’S DIARY by John Kim THE BARTENDER by Amy [...]
Stories about Hair
by Many Different Writers 12/23/2004Neighborhood: Multiple
June 21, 2004 Straight Talk on Hair Village by Rachel W. Sherman No one who does Japanese hair straightening at Hair Village is Japanese….(more) November 24, 2002 The Politics of Hair Removal by Alicia Erian She was dirt cheap, and we shared an interest in politics….(more) Sal The Barber In The Make Believe Ballroom [...]
Goons of New York
by Jean Paul Cativiela 07/04/2004Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
Midway through The Warriors, a lesbian gang called The Lizzies lures a detachment of Warriors back to their party pad, treacherously plying them with music, dancing, and the promise of good loving. Waylaying the Warriors just as Circe waylaid Odysseus and his crew, these jaunty lesbians proceed to transform the street-tough Warrior boys into randy [...]
On The Aesthetics of Urban Walking and Writing
by Phillip Lopate 03/24/2004Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
A tugboat, wheezing wreaths of steam, Lunged past, with one galvanic blare stove up the River I counted the echoes assembling, one after another Searching, thumbing the midnight on the piers. Lights, coasting, left the oily tympanum of waters The blackness somewhere gouged glass on a sky And this thy harbor, O my City, I have driven under, Tossed from the coil [...]
Mr. Cheese and the Pajama Party
by Diedre K. 01/15/2004Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
It is 7:00pm, and I look down at my vibrating phone. It’s from Mr. Cheese. Interesting. I had met him awhile back, and he seemed nice enough, so we exchanged numbers. But I rarely hear from him, and have never had more than a 5 minute conversation with the guy. Hm. I wonder what the occasion is. “Diedre? [...]
Blackout ‘77: Part II
by James Goodman 01/05/2004Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
Merchants and police had the first say, but in no time, countless others got into the fray. “They are jackals, that’s why,” said a city councilman who represented a heavily looted Brooklyn neighborhood. “Jackals who took advantages of the darkness to destroy our stores and services.” “Why do they do it?” asked an eighteen-year-old, as if the [...]
Captain Z. and the Blackout
by Eugenia Klopsis 10/22/2003Neighborhood: Lower Manhattan, Multiple
The air on the fourteenth floor of 1 Police Plaza is a little thick, and Captain Z. wheezes. “You’re wheezing,” I say. “I am not,” he says, and pulls out his asthma inhaler, shakes it, and takes a puff. His lung sounds immediately clear. It’s 4:30 on Thursday, August 14, exactly nineteen minutes after the power went [...]
Forts and Fortifications
by Lee R. Unterborn 05/11/2003Neighborhood: Across the River, Multiple
I was a fat, strange kid for whome Forts were very important. My parents used to drive from our upstate New York home to the Big Apple twice a year. For my parents those visits meant fine dining and Broadway shows . For me however, those visits meant Forts. Yes. Forts. I was interested in anything “military,” but especially [...]
The Day The War Started
by Gerald Howard 03/24/2003Neighborhood: Midtown, Multiple
At about quarter to five this past Thursday I got into a cab at 56th and Broadway; my destination was the Port Authority and the Short Line Bus to my home in Orange County. It was a rainy, miserable day and I was damned glad to get the cab. My driver was relievedly Haitian — [...]
