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Thanksgiving With The Blonde in The Brown Jacket
by Timothy Braun 10/31/2006Neighborhood: Harlem
If you find yourself awakened by an eccentric, foul-tempered neighbor called el Jefe in the hallway of an apartment building known for its vermin while fully installed with a vodka hangover and reeking of pizza-flavored snack treats, be as pleasant as possible. Especially if you are seeking assistance in the forcible entry of your own [...]
Spinning Tables at the Frying Pan
by Ellen Moynihan 08/10/2006Neighborhood: Chelsea
I had never gone to the Frying Pan—the restored boat/event space docked beside the Chelsea Piers—before last week. It was one of those places that I’d almost been to a bunch of times, but never actually made it. I nearly didn’t go that night, either, but I’m glad I did, because I think I ended [...]
Alice Quinn
by Josh Lefkowitz 07/31/2006Neighborhood: Chelsea
The woman comes into the New York restaurant where I work and is reading a poetry magazine. “Say,” I say, “is that some sort of poetry magazine?” “Yeah,” she says. “I like Billy Collins,” I say. “Yeah?” she says. “Yeah,” I say. “But don’t you think Poetry is Dead, kinda?” “Not really,” she says, and [...]
The Terrors of Tinytown
by Amy Shearn 03/16/2006Neighborhood: Midtown
If you are of the runty persuasion (for our purposes let’s say 5′ 2″ or shorter – ceiling-skimming 5′ 3ers need not apply) you likely know the terror that is the general admission rock show. You may – as I did for years – swear off the concert hall forever, foregoing its unforgiving expanses for [...]
Mother Goes To Hollywood
by Thomas Beller 03/02/2006Neighborhood: Upper West Side
In April, 1992, I was in Los Angeles preparing to go to the Academy awards as the date of someone who had been nominated for an Oscar–my mother. The Oscars are about Hollywood, about bright, ephemeral glamour, about surfaces that reflect. My mother is not about these things. Yet there we were, an unlikely pair, [...]
The Touch Artist
by Jill Sand D'Angelo 02/02/2006Neighborhood: Upper East Side
It took me a while to realize that Kenny was missing. I had been out of town for the holidays, visiting family in California. After almost a week without seeing him since my return, I began to grow concerned. I live on the Upper East Side in an area that used to be, in the [...]
Goose Bumps: Oil Fields and Air Conditioning at Film Anthology
by Vinicius Rodrigues 07/24/2005Neighborhood: East Village
It had been quite a long time since I’d last visited the Anthology Film Archives, that temple of avant-garde and everything cinema in the East Village. Last night, however, I lost my own personal battle with the heat and decided, fatigued and irritated, that a movie in the dark and cool of a film theater [...]
My Life as a Kid: A Nostalgic Look Back on Raves in the 1990′s
by Patrick W. Gallagher 07/07/2005Neighborhood: Uncategorized
The first time I ever went to a rave it was in the old Packard Plant. I didn’t know the name of the Plant at the time, nor did I know where it stood in relation to the city at large. I was told that the event was “at Packard,” not realizing that this was [...]
The Kept Boy
by John Epperson 08/02/2003Neighborhood: Upper West Side
While studying piano in college in Mississippi in the mid-seventies, I discovered I could make money with my ability at the keyboard. I played the pipe organ at a church in Hazlehurst, where my parents still live, every Sunday morning. During the week I played the piano for singing lessons and ballet classes in Jackson [...]
