Television | Mr Beller's Neighborhood

Login or Register

Where Am I?

You are currently browsing stories tagged with Television

Riding With Ellen DeGeneres

by Gretchen Wiker 10/25/2010
Neighborhood: Upper West Side

For the past several minutes, I've been watching Ellen DeGeneres drive a cab around Columbus Circle behind a camera crew. The cab is old fashioned, with a big square grill and black-and-white checkerboard sides. Businessmen rushing by don't notice her or don’t care if they do, and I stand with a few foreign tourists ready [...]

You Bet Your Life

by Roberta Allen 06/19/2010
Neighborhood: Upper West Side

After work, my father usually went to the racetrack or played poker with his pals in the Ansonia Hotel, a few blocks from our pre-war apartment on West 76th Street, so my mother and I were surprised to see him home early one evening. It didn’t take him long to tell us why. “Turn on [...]

Why I Like Law & Order

by Iris Smyles 03/25/2010
Neighborhood: West Village

What I like most about Law & Order is that it’s always on. For a long time I didn’t watch Law & Order, and then one day I did. I used to turn the TV on, flick around for something to watch, and on nearly every other channel find Law & Order reruns featuring either [...]

Recent Stories
- King of Handball
  by Raanan Geberer 01/24/2012
  By any standards, Mark Margolies, who is now in his late sixties, lived an uneventful life. He was modest and soft-spoken. Even after he graduated from Brooklyn College, he lived with his parents until he was 30, mainly staying in his room, working only sporadically, and reading philosophy books. Then, on a weekend hiking trip, [...]
- Can’t Say No
  by Maggie O'Connell 01/24/2012
  You didn’t say no. You never said no. You wouldn’t even think of saying no. So, when he arrived at the door of my tenement apartment at 1AM, unexpected, unannounced, I didn’t say no. I let him in, against all my instincts. “Hi. I was at the community center. We just finished working. We were [...]
- Shana Tova!
  by Simone Rainey 01/19/2012
  It was Rosh Hashana, 2010, and I had just moved into yet another new apartment, as I tend to do about once a year, sometimes twice. This place seemed good enough to fully unpack for, though, so there were boxes strewn around the floor, some open, some still taped tightly shut, waiting. But as much [...]
Recent Comments
- King of Handball (1)
  - Bonnie Walker: 4 STARS I LIKED THIS STORY VERY MUCH.
- Manhattan Sex Clubs: They Have Their Ups and Downs (5)
  - john: Im looking for a good sex club in the manhattan this sat night 1/28/12. Does anyone know of any???
- Can’t Say No (1)
  - Paul Louis Macchi: The author did an excellent job painting a picture of how a cult can wear down the wills of its...
- Dispatch from under the Overpass (1)
  - Jessica Faller: I loved this story. It was vivid, heartfelt, and really, really funny. I have spent my entire...
- Niketown, Your Town (1)
  - Esther O'Leary Winter: Hi Russell, Not sure if this is you but I hope you are doing well. Love the short story. Take...
Neighborhoods
Archives
MBN in print
- $Lost and Found: Stories from New York (Vol. 2) (Mr. Beller\'s Neighborhood) - Thomas Beller$
books from our contributors

joomla stats