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The New York–Baghdad Connection
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 03/28/2003Neighborhood: Manhattan
Day three 1,300 cruise missiles and bombs hit Baghdad. At work I have to use the freight elevator to bring my bicycle into the office. The elevator’s operated by an older Eastern European man with a deeply lined face and thinning hair. He dresses in the company uniform and a pair of beaten Air Jordans. [...]
A Real Bomb in America’s Secret War
by Nhek Sarin 03/28/2003Neighborhood: Letter From Abroad
A flaming sunset in western Cambodia, in the middle of 1972. I was coming back from my uncle’s house. I was about 500 meters from my house, when there were suddenly terrific sounds, like thunderclaps, “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Immediately, I saw the spark and the firelight emerging into the flaming sky. I was very frightened [...]
The Fracas at Washington Square Park
by Sam Lipsyte 03/25/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
The late great comic Bill Hicks once said, famously, apropos the first gulf war: “I find myself in the unenviable position of being for the war — but against the troops.” Nobody that I’ve heard has come up with a similar corker this time around, a line which can sum up the personal confusion and [...]
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 — [...]
