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Wonderland
by Nicole Ferraro 03/08/2010Neighborhood: Featured, Whitestone
In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, 19-year-old Alice – played by Mia Wasikowska – returns to Wonderland, 10 years after her last visit there, to rescue it from the Red Queen. At 26, two decades since my last trip to the rabbit hole, I can only say I envy her. I was six years old in [...]
Twelfth Street
by Eve Glasberg 02/12/2010Neighborhood: Greenwich Village, West Village
Of all the streets in New York, 12th Street is the one with which I most identify. I’ve never actually lived on it, but it has threaded its way through my life and clung there. The street represents both some of my best and worst times. Not all of 12th Street, which runs from Avenue C [...]
Holden’s New York
by Thomas Beller 01/29/2010Neighborhood: Central Park, Featured, Midtown
"THE first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz. I left my bags right outside the booth so I could watch them, but as soon as I was inside, I couldn’t think of anybody to call up.” So begins the [...]
The Smell of the Past
by Faith Wurtzel 01/23/2010Neighborhood: Featured, Inwood
There are secret portals all over New York City, and without warning you can get sucked into one. I fell down one of those rabbit holes myself in the last icy days of winter and, after the briefest of wonderland experiences, was unceremoniously coughed back up and spat out again. One of my loftier 2009 New [...]
The Searchers
by Ava Chin 08/09/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
We weren’t exactly seasoned foragers. I had only been foraging in the city a few months before I met Neil, who lucked into it the Saturday he rode his bicycle in Prospect Park and found our group picking field greens. But we had come into it in the same way—we were both dealing with break-ups [...]
Old Nuns
by Anne Meara 06/08/2009Neighborhood: Across the River, Long Island
I’m watching a documentary on the Sundance Channel, Sex In a Cold Climate—the source material for the fictional film, The Magdalene Sisters—and I’m having a flashback. It’s 1936. I’m six years old in St. Joseph’s boarding school in Monticello New York. My mother is ill and recovering from an operation for “lady problems.” About fifty [...]
It Even Moves
by Roberta Allen 05/20/2009Neighborhood: Upper West Side
That morning in 1949 begins innocently enough in our one-room apartment in the Ansonia Hotel. I am four. My father gets out of bed and goes into the bathroom. I go over to the bathroom door. The keyhole is just the right height. Curious, I peer through it and see my father. I can hardly [...]
My Mother’s Garden
by Dorothy Spears 05/08/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights
The author’s childhood home in Greenwich. (Photo by Alexis Rockman) Even after we all were married, with children of our own, my siblings and I would celebrate Mother’s Day in Greenwich. If the weather was good, we ate sandwiches with our mother and father on the porch, watching our children run together, and split apart, calling, [...]
They Steal Young Girls
by Carol J. Binkowski 03/23/2009Neighborhood: Chinatown
“You can’t walk around here! They steal young girls and sell them as slaves.” Grandma’s voice hit a higher pitch with each syllable, her blue eyes sparking with agitation behind the dark rims of her glasses. I was momentarily stunned by her vehemence as much as by her words. We were in the backseat of the [...]
The Most Important Thought In the World
by Tom Diriwachter 03/23/2009Neighborhood: Across the River, Staten Island
Those given to make art are probably the least well equipped to handle what is demanded of the artist. The criticism. The egos. The business – because when it comes right down to it, the artist is a salesman, and his art is the product. It’s enough to push a borderline personality over the edge. [...]
The Decalogue: Ten Short Stories about Ten Short…Long Years
by Patrick J. Sauer 03/23/2009Neighborhood: All Over, Multiple
March 2009 will mark the ten-year anniversary of returning to New York City. The first year I lived here, in 1993-94 was a blur: an apartment in the Bronx, working with kids at a neighborhood center, $10 all-you-could-drink Saturday nights at Rockridge on Bleecker, 6 a.m. 4-train rides home, and smoking blunts with the janitor who [...]
I Left My Youth at Fred & Rudy’s Candy Store
by Peter Cherches 12/13/2008Neighborhood: Across the River, Brooklyn
When I was a kid in Brooklyn, in the Sixties, the “candy store” was the local hangout, the crossroads of the neighborhood. Actually, these ubiquitous institutions were a combination of soda fountain, luncheonette and newsstand. We probably called them candy stores because as kids the candy we bought there was the center of our culinary [...]
