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No Privacy in the Community House Community
by Kathryn Holmquist 12/31/2006Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
“The intersection of Fifth Avenue and Union Street is the unofficial town square of Park Slope, a bustling baby factory where expensive puppies idle beside a store that sells $28 Brooklyn T-Shirts and a wine shop called Red, White & Bubbly.” Fifth Avenue and Union Street is also the intersection where, in 1973, Raphi Allini, [...]
The Naked New Year’s Eve Bartender
by Ronald Douglas 12/31/2006Neighborhood: Tribeca
The job sounded perfect: bartending a gay sex party in a private loft in Tribeca. If I had to be stuck in New York for New Year’s Eve – a very depressing thought after having spent four New Year’s Eves in Cape Town – then I might as well work, earn some money, and just [...]
The Scorekeeper
by Courtney Lichterman 12/01/2006Neighborhood: Murray Hill
One of the oddities of growing up in a big city like New York is that the discussion and anticipation of crime enters into everyday childhood rather unremarkably. In many ways it is the first real adult problem children are asked to deal with and conversation about murders in general were, by necessity, exceptionally frequent [...]
Dom’s Wife
by Mickey Z. 11/24/2006Neighborhood: Astoria, Queens
When you live in an apartment building, you never know who the hell is gonna move in next door. I remember being in my late teens when a Greek family moved out two doors down and an older couple took the apartment. The guy’s name was Dom and he fixed televisions for a living. A [...]
What Goes Around
by Thomas R. Ziegler 10/31/2006Neighborhood: All Over, Bronx
It’s 1978, the annual “summer offensive” is well underway and chaos rules the streets. The ghettoes are burning and there are more fires than there are units to fight them. If TV stars and politicians resided here, you could bet we would be operating with a full second alarm assignment but here in Hunts Point [...]
Manhattan Sex Clubs: They Have Their Ups and Downs
by Daphne 09/24/2006Neighborhood: Midtown
The sex club looked more like a cheesy New Jersey club than a happening orgy fest. There were balloons on the ceiling and people dancing to seventies music. Most of the people were not very attractive. The women were bleached blondes with frizzy hair and a bit dumpy or with fake boobs. The men had [...]
The Midtown Report: Heightened Security Leads to Homoerotic Fondling/Rescue by Dick & Jane
by J Paul Ghetto 09/16/2006Neighborhood: Letter From Abroad
It never fails. When I venture outside of midtown, something extraordinary happens. My muse, Madelaine, had a graduation party last weekend at a new downtown club. I invited The Prince of Darkness to accompany me. The Prince of Darkness works like the devil, so, needless to say, it’s difficult to get him out of his [...]
Revising the Footlicker Story
by Daniel Nester 05/05/2006Neighborhood: East Village
1. “Saturday, January 27, 1996. Last Wednesday night, Anna* told me the story of how she made ten dollars letting a guy she worked with lick her feet. From what she tells me, he was really into it–licking her toes, the in-between areas, the heel. She said she even ‘threw in the other foot for [...]
A Blues Clues Companion Was I
by Kristine Simmons 04/20/2006Neighborhood: Across the River, Letter From Abroad
I, Granny, took the helm at approximately 1200 hours. Steering a true course, all was calm for the day. The squab finished his mess; skies remained calm, no squalls of crying. Grandson and I played toss with a small orange ball and spent hours crawling around. Tumble salts off my legs; giggles of delight. Peek-a-boo’s [...]
Talk Your Way Out
by Brian Shuman 04/13/2006Neighborhood: Midtown
On my first day of the assignment I was pointed toward a stack of newspapers and told to find a pair of scissors so I could cut out any articles mentioning Hillary. My supervisor’s name was Jennifer. She was waving an adding machine above her head and ticker tape hung by her face like a [...]
Home Address: When NoLita was the Bowery
by Steve Turtell 04/06/2006Neighborhood: East Village
I moved into 292 Elizabeth Street in the fall of 1976. On a Sunday night. I was skipping out on three months rent at 242 E. 10th Street on the corner of 1st Avenue and figured it would be easiest to do when there was less traffic and not many people around. Unfortunately, the Maltese [...]
My First Casualty
by Mike Dressel 03/02/2006Neighborhood: Times Square
I had been living in New York for three years before I saw my first dead body. Sure, there were those moments of uncertainty all New Yorkers experience, when stepping into an empty train car and seeing a body splayed out, usually a poor homeless person who certainly smelled like death; but you were never [...]
