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Love and Money at Sun Lin Garden
by Tom Diriwachter 06/04/2006Neighborhood: Chinatown
It’s common practice for a bar/restaurant to save their first dollar and hang it on the wall. Sometimes it’s framed. Other times it’s taped. But it’s up there for luck. Or at least celebration. A sort of diploma from the school of capitalism. Some businesses even save their first dollar bill, five dollar bill, ten [...]
David Zuva: Shoemaker
by John Bowe (interviewer) 06/03/2006Neighborhood: West Village
My name is David Zuva. I’m from Russia, from Odessa. I’ve been here twenty years. I’m a shoemaker. I repair shoes. This my profession. I worked in Russia in the same profession. I learned when I was small boy. My father teach me. All the family shoemakers–my whole family–my wife, me, my father, my brothers, [...]
Homesteading the Intellectual Prairie
by Thomas Beller 06/03/2006Neighborhood: Midtown
A company called Viacom has recently purchased another company called Paramount for about ten billion dollars. This followed several months of intensive maneuvering between Viacom and another company called QVC. The competition held the businessmen and a large segment of the media in thrall. It was also good news for poets and the like. It’s [...]
The Quintessential
by Dino Gerard D'Agata 05/31/2006Neighborhood: Midtown
The strange twinge that often comes when I leave work and head west on 56th Street is, oddly, much like the same thing that hit the center of my gut when, at 13, I rode a bike to a movie theater in South Jersey and, with my school buddies, went to see my first R-rated [...]
Spare Change
by Philippe Reines 05/30/2006Neighborhood: Upper West Side
It’s 10:20 p.m. on a Tuesday, and the air is filled with the unmistakable sound of coins hitting metal. The multi-colored machine generating all the noise stands almost six feet tall and looks like a cross between an oversized Lego kit and something that toddlers would be crawling over at Playspace. The high tech liquid [...]
Hood Books & High Culture
by Courtenay Aja Barton 05/22/2006Neighborhood: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
What if books are the new crack? In the 80′s, Bed-Stuy had crack. Now, we’ve got literature. The New York Times publishes plenty of articles on the fluctuations in Bed-Stuy’s crime rate, and on the neighborhood’s gentrification, but they are not reporting on this: literature. Perhaps it’s not fit to print. I make my modest, [...]
The Man’s Wallet
by Karen Miller 03/10/2006Neighborhood: Upper West Side
On a summer evening in 2001, after work and after grilled cheese in the Greek diner on Amsterdam, Jeremy and I are walking through Verdi square, past the 72nd Street station on the 1 and 9, the most treacherously narrow subway platform in all of Manhattan, forever poised on the precipice of disaster. The streets [...]
The Price of Freedom
by Iris Smyles 02/09/2006Neighborhood: West Village
A psychic stopped me on the street today after having accidentally looked into my soul. “I see something in you,” she told me. “Something in your past!” “Be careful looking back,” I told her, concerned. “. . . Should you turn into a pillar of salt.” “I want to talk to you.” I felt compelled [...]
Adriani For Mayor
by Johnny Adriani 01/26/2006Neighborhood: All Over, Letter From Abroad
Today I had perhaps the most unique experience that I have ever had in my lifetime. I began walking the streets of New Orleans and speaking to people on a one on one basis. This may seem odd to you, and perhaps it is, but I canvassed New Orleans today not as a citizen but [...]
The Midtown Report: Waiting For Todd and Buffy
by J. Paul Ghetto 11/10/2005Neighborhood: Uncategorized
I live and work in midtown Detroit in the area known as the “New Center.” This area is in the midst of a new housing boom. Lofts and condominiums are springing up as fast as the land can be acquired. The area is recapturing the grandeur of the 60’s and 70’s, when it was the [...]
MY SCHEDULE C FATHER
by Carol Forget 04/10/2005Neighborhood: Upper West Side
I’m sitting in an upholstered armchair Jerry reserves for his clients, worrying the gray rubber brain from his collection of stress toys – the same ones I fiddle with while waiting to hear the size of my refund. But it’s November – too early for my annual pre-April 15th appointment. In a few minutes, when [...]
Filing Away
by Kate Walter 03/30/2005Neighborhood: East Village
I felt a little nostalgic as my W2 slips started arriving in the mail. For the first time in two decades I did not receive the form letter from Sheldon, my long term accountant. His annual reminder always opened with the awkward phrasing: “Winter is here and with it the knowledge that April 15 will [...]
