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Rockaway Beach Memoirs
by Fran Giuffre 07/12/2003Neighborhood: On the Waterfront, Queens
I was nearly there. Carrying my chair, beach bag and small cooler the few final yards to my usual spot, I was almost past the part I dreaded. It was the trek from the parking lot at Riis Park in the Rockaways, to my little beach at the start of neighboring Breezy Point. To get [...]
Horsing Around With Jason Kidd
by Thomas Beller 06/06/2003Neighborhood: Across the River, Letter From Abroad
The following article was reported and written in the winter and spring of 2002. This article deals, in part, with the fact that Jason Kidd’s childhood was formed in part by his chores caring for horses. ** It was a cold winter night, and the Knicks were playing the Nets. I took the bus from [...]
Evan’s Ramp
by Jocko Weyland 05/16/2003Neighborhood: Dumbo
Snow and cold are anathema to the skateboarder. The winter in New York can be a frustrating time to pursue an activity best done wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Hardcore skaters still hit the streets to skate midtown’s smooth plazas on frigid nights, but that can be a slightly masochistic and uncomfortable experience. One remedy [...]
The Return of John Starks
by Thomas Beller 05/07/2003Neighborhood: Uncategorized
The Westchester Wildfire, a newly formed franchise of the United States Basketball League, held open try-outs the other day at their practice facility at Suny Purchase, and nearly eighty people showed up, in spite of the $150 dollar fee. A fair number were playground all-stars for whom the try out was a kind one day [...]
Knicks Notes: The Golden Age of Losing
by Hal Sirowitz 12/04/2002Neighborhood: Clinton
The more games the New York Knicks won the more they raised the ticket prices. I could only afford to see them at Madison Square Garden if they continued to have losing seasons. I’d buy a ticket from a scalper. Instead of charging more he’d sell it for a fraction of what it was worth, [...]
What it Feels Like for a Mets Fan
by Daniel Nelson 11/21/2002Neighborhood: Queens, Shea Stadium
Men will ruin $500 suits scrambling for a $5 baseball. It’s an adage as old as the idea of men wearing suits to a ball game. It also happens to be true. Every person attending a major league baseball game — from the youngest child being indoctrinated into the ritualistic church of Baseball at the [...]
58 Inches of ambiance
by Heather Beyer 11/14/2002Neighborhood: Manhattan
I choose what I’m wearing carefully on Tuesdays. I like to show a little midriff, some shoulder. In a bar, before I play, I look around and notice other people’s midriffs and shoulders. I look at the curve of bodies bending across tables and feel my own. I want to laugh the throaty laugh of [...]
Applause
by Thomas Beller 11/03/2002Neighborhood: Central Park
Me and a friend wandered into Central Park yesterday afternoon to watch the New York City Marathon. By the time we got there it was nearly three O’clock, four hours after the race started, but the runners were still thick on the road, waves and waves of them running South, gulping from little green Gatorade [...]
Half-Time Show at the Jets Game
by Thomas Beller 10/24/2002Neighborhood: Letter From Abroad, Outer Boroughs
We arrived at Giants Stadium. There are four huge spiraling ramps through which the stadium's population of 80,000 enter and exit. They wind their way from the ground level up to the top, a huge cement coil faintly reminiscent of the Guggenheim Museum, though with a more prison vibe. My friend explained that it was [...]
Tillary Street Basketball Court
by Thomas Beller 10/15/2002Neighborhood: Brooklyn
A photo is due soon of this basketball court, along with some anecdotes, the usual bloody minded gasping for words to explain basketball prose to be found on this site and http://www.thebasketballdiaries.net
What is Flotsam?
by Patrick J. Sauer 09/03/2002Neighborhood: On the Waterfront
There it was, in my Inbox, mocking me. Dragging me down to its oceanic depths. Instantly, drowning me in thoughts of that horrific day downtown in August of 2000 when I attempted to swim a mile in the Hudson River. The New York City Swims people e-mailed a friendly reminder to sign up for this [...]
Step’s Last Stand
by Brooke Shaffner 06/06/2002Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Ellen was our captain. When they started canceling step classes at Body Strength Fitness, a small, privately owned gym on 106th Street and Broadway, Ellen clandestinely circulated a petition for the reinstatement of high-energy aerobic courses. She solicited support before and after classes. She held impromptu meetings in the locker room. She kept the whole [...]
