Mr Beller’s Neighborhood is looking for non-fiction stories set in New York. A story should be reasonably short, vivid, specific, and true. It can recall a person or a place, or it can recall a experience that moved you. We’re interested in the distant past as much as the present. A story should be true to the facts. We don’t publish everything we get, but we publish some of it, and we want to hear from you.
Recent Stories
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All That They Can Be?
by JB McGeever 05/16/2012The local recruiter is at my classroom door again and I really wish he’d stop doing this. When I explain that there are designated areas throughout the building for him to speak with students or ‘potential recruits’ as they’re called in his line of work, he apologizes profusely. In fact, his demeanor and etiquette is [...]
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Old Enough To Die In Brooklyn: The Mortician’s Lament
by Chris Pomorski 05/10/2012When the previous resident of my apartment, who was still living in it when my girlfriend and I viewed it for the first time, told us that the funeral home downstairs hardly ever held services, the effect on me was less than palliative. Jenna nodded thoughtfully in the way real estate shoppers are prone, apparently [...]
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Hello Pizza
by Ernest Merrimont 05/07/2012On a just-cold-enough-not-to-be-warm evening in April I am at work, delivering pizza; mostly on streets lined with brownstones. Down these lanes I pedal doggedly, lurching on an old blue/green mountain bike with a large wire basket mounted above the front wheel and a habit of breaking down with reliable frequency. Tall and thin with a [...]
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Recent Comments
Knickerbocker Village (2)
- jd: very much enjoyed the read and the rich history of the LES. thank you for sharing.
Camp Camelot (3)
- Marilyn Attia: I also went there in 1977 I was 19, yes everything in the article is true. We would walk all the way...
- Johna Holmes: Great article. I also went there as a kid. I used to sneak candy bars in school and goats. Thanks.
Mountain At Charles Lane (8)
- Gary: Hello ! It is really a treasure reading everybodys memories. Yes the gold records on the wall. We actually did...
- Velveeta Heartbreak: I remember rehearsing and recording at Charles Lane in 1985/86 with The Astorians, hanging out...
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