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1981
by peter nolan smith 02/14/2011Neighborhood: East Village, West Village
Everyone on the scene thought operating an after-hours club on top of a 14th Street theater was a good idea and Arthur Weinstein opened the Jefferson on New Year's Eve 1980. During the week the loft was home to Arthur, his wife, daughter, and best friend, Scottie. On the weekend hundreds of revelers unwilling to [...]
Ride the Lightning
by Edward Mullany 07/04/2010Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Outside the shop where we'd just bought ice cream, my wife and I were sitting on a bench against the window, my wife with a cone and myself with a small cup. It was sunny. We'd just come over from Riverside Park, where we'd been leisurely biking, and where people were already starting to gather [...]
Portrait of The Bagel as a Young Man
by Thomas Beller 03/29/2004Neighborhood: Upper West Side
His hands were large. My resume lay flat on his desk. He had cleared a space amidst the clutter, and he ran one of those big, sensitive, but also violent looking hands over it again and again while he studied it, as though his hand was a scanner and would impart some key bit of [...]
Smalls is Dead
by Maura Kelly 06/15/2003Neighborhood: West Village
Smalls–a tiny, 50-person-capacity club in a West Village basement where for the last ten years you could watch the city’s rising jazz stars grow up before your eyes, where the jam sessions kept going past dawn, where musicians (and sometimes the customers, it seemed) often lived in some of the club’s back rooms–is dead! On [...]
Notes From the New East Harlem
by Periel Aschenbrand 05/22/2003Neighborhood: East Harlem
There’s Antenna Lady, the black woman who stands in front of the building next to mine with the silver antenna-thing pierced through her face. Though she must be in her forties, her face is studded with all sorts of St. Marks-like piercings, the most shocking being the long one poking out of her left cheek. [...]
Tom’s Restaurant
by Vince Passaro 02/13/2003Neighborhood: Morningside Heights
I took two of my kids to see the new Adam Sandler picture, “Little Nicky,” and there it was again, behind Sandler as he sniffed some flowers: Tom’s Restaurant at 112th and Broadway. When I was at Columbia College, in the gray and bankrupt and crumbling 1970s, my friends and I had a joke that [...]
Milk & Chocolate
by Elisha Cooper 02/09/2003Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
We’re walking through the Village, it’s freezing, and we’re trying to find a place that has both good hot chocolate and is a good place to breast-feed. It’s not easy. I have nothing to do with the breast-feeding (having no breasts), but I feel responsible for finding the location to do it in. The place [...]
The Cottonwood Cafe
by Victoria Reggio 11/15/2002Neighborhood: West Village
We met by way of the New York City Marathon; the roller skating marathon. It is little known Big Apple trivia, but in the Fall of 1980, there was a roller-skating marathon that covered the same mileage and territory throughout the five boroughs. One of the participants was my boyfriend T.J. A draft resister who [...]
The Celtic Supporter’s Club
by Jim Merlis 10/13/2002Neighborhood: Astoria, Queens
I was born in Brooklyn and to my understanding it was a fait accompli that I would be a Mets fan. I was taught that all Brooklyn residents had been Dodgers fans and four years after the Dodgers sold their souls and moved to Los Angeles we became New York Mets fans. As a child [...]
Drinking Redneck-Style
by Shari Waxman 07/23/2002Neighborhood: Chelsea
Manhattan just doesn’t make for good redneck living. You can’t bag a 12-point buck, park a Ford F250, get a gun permit, or buy a tin of Skol in this city. If you like Nascar racing, the N.R.A., Rush Limbaugh, and personalized bug-deflectors, finding like-minded friends won’t be any easier. Worst of all, as far [...]
High Noon at the B-29
by Zaphra Reskakis 02/17/2002Neighborhood: Upper West Side
“All my dishes are masterpieces ‘cause my customers deserve the best! They should lick their fingers to the bone,” my Dad would say. “Nobody eats here just once unless he dies before the next time he plans to come in,” my Dad said. He was always busy cooking and talking at the B-29, the restaurant [...]
Year of the Horse
by Kael Goodman 02/05/2002Neighborhood: Tribeca
I went to XO on Walker Street last night. It’s a small Chinese restaurant, far enough from mott street that little English is spoken there. It’s the kind of restaurant where i like to go by myself…sit at the bar, suck down the rice noodle with shrimp and chinese vegetable, and hide behind a paper [...]
