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Hemmed In
by Sally Pla 02/14/2011Neighborhood: Midtown
This is a story about my grandmother, who was young in Manhattan in the 1920s. Speakeasies, nightclubs, drop-waisted dresses, bobbed hair, cloche hats, waist-length strands of dime-store pearls. Even for a middle-class workaday office girl like Frances Thornton, those were heady times. She was among the first of the gals in her office to bob [...]
Getting to St. Martin
by Sabrina Hassan 02/07/2011Neighborhood: JFK/LGA
It was my biggest disappointment in recent memory. I slumped in a blue plastic seat at the JFK terminal to absorb the shock while my plane to sunny St. Martin took off without me. I couldn’t believe I had let my vacation slip through my fingers. I had remembered to pack everything—the sunscreen, the bikinis, [...]
Winter Wonderland
by Seth Swaaley 01/08/2011Neighborhood: Midtown, Multiple, Uncategorized
The snow is beautiful and magical as it begins to come down in light flakes in the early morning hours of late February. The roads and sidewalks are still manageable, the seagulls playfully carving the air a few blocks away from the Hudson, children throwing snowballs, people out walking their dogs. As the hours pass [...]
Scooter Boy
by Neil Stein 12/31/2010Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan, Park Slope, The East River
I was almost killed the other night. Really. That’s not so unusual because for the last number of years I’ve been riding my motor scooter all over New York. This has made me fair game for the city’s automobile drivers. Each trip I take turns into a mortality tale. I love riding my scooter. I’m [...]
The Crack Van
by Connor Gaudet 07/31/2010Neighborhood: All Over, Carroll Gardens, Featured
I drive a van for a restaurant. Actually it’s several restaurants but they are owned by the same people. They have three restaurant locations and two cafes, but only one location has a full kitchen and bakery. All the food is prepared at this main location and then sent to the other various restaurant and [...]
Political Joyride
by Sam Roseme 07/31/2010Neighborhood: Lower Manhattan
We bounded out the exit of the Municipal Building like two cowboys pushing through saloon doors. Kurt set the pace as he trotted to the VIP parking lot, where six black Lincoln Town Cars belonging to elected officials and agency commissioners rested during the dignitaries’ brief visits to their offices upstairs. He reached one of [...]
The Honda Healing
by Amelia Blanquera 07/31/2010Neighborhood: Bronx
It was midnight and Jay and I were walking out of Brook Park in the South Bronx. We had been in the Puerto Rican version of a sweat lodge. Years ago I had attended a Lakota Indian version of the same purification ritual in upstate New York. But this experience was far more spiritual and [...]
Taxi Driver: The True Story of a Man Who Saved My Life
by Lori Jakiela 01/23/2010Neighborhood: Queens
I’d written down the wrong rotation number and reported to LaGuardia instead of Kennedy. Easy mistake for a new flight attendant: Rotation 1010 – LGA to Kansas City. Rotation 1001 – JFK to Madrid. Rotation 1010 meant the Kansas City Best Western, watered-down orange juice at Waffle House, and no in-room movies. Rotation 1001 meant [...]
Creole Commuting
by Claudine Corbanese 05/26/2004Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Flatbush
It’s 12 degrees outside and I am standing at the corner of Flatbush and Glenwood Avenues waiting for the bus. It’s dark already on this gloomy January day and the wind gusts feel like razor blades on my face. There are about fifty other people waiting at the bus stop. We are all weighted down [...]
Segway Sightings
by Maud Newton 11/09/2003Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Williamsburg
The Segway first appeared in front of the B-61 bus stop on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg about a month and a half ago. Riding it was a short, thin lad sporting an uneven bowl cut. He looked about fifteen, as though he might have torn himself away from a Dungeons & Dragons game, swung by [...]
My Damn Sister
by Cinetra C. 08/06/2003Neighborhood: East Harlem
One day I was on the M60 bus going across 125th Street. It was a nice bright sunny day. There were lots of people who had just came from shopping, from all the stores on 125th Street. I was with my friend and my little sister, who is four. My little sister’s name is Maya. [...]
French Kissing The Cab Driver
by Maura Kelly 02/12/2003Neighborhood: Uncategorized
As far back as seventh grade, when I got grounded for talking back to my dad and couldn’t go to my best friend Kirsten’s party–where her mom was going to give us a little champagne up front and her older brother was going to hide a bottle of vodka for us in the basement bathroom–New [...]
