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The Lone Ranger Faces Life

By Norbert Weissberg

April 26, 2026

What is it with guys and guns? Do you think it’s just the sexual association? The constant media din about “being a man”? Too many John Wayne movies? Who knows? I can only tell you [...]

The Counterfeiter and A Visit to the Burial Grounds

By Ben Khadim DeMott

April 19, 2026

“Perhaps @Icegov should go check this corner out.” That’s how social media influencer and Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captioned her October 19, 2025, video on X showing West African vendors selling counterfeit goods [...]

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May 3, 2026

Roberto Duran (L) is hit with a left punch from Edwin Viruet Over lunch in the Bronx, “The Puerto Rican Ali” reflects on the life that slipped away with the scorecards ________________ Two red nose pitbulls, an open fire hydrant, and a dozen soaking-wet kids stood between us and the Bronx hole-in-the-wall diner. Edwin Viruet and I kept one eye on the loose dogs and the other on the children darting into the street. Once inside the cuchifrito spot on Castle Hill Avenue, it smelled and sounded like we were in Puerto Rico. “They even have fried ears,” Edwin said. “That’s what my grandparents used to eat,” I said, before pointing out that the rice behind the counter looked a day [...]

Downtown Palimpsest

By Aurelie Bernard Wortsman

Dahlia on the Bus

By Julia Corrado

Passion Project

By Perla Celeste Núñez

Moving On: Leaving the Bowery

By Susan T. Landry

By Nancy Stiefel

Take the 7 Train

By Fredda Rosen

A Rallying Cry for the 2025 Mets

Airport Rejects

A Day at the Track: Aqueduct, 1972

By Larry Racioppo

The Lone Ranger Faces Life

By Norbert Weissberg

Laughing, Screaming, Crying: P.S. 100, Trump Village and Brighton Beach

By Jack Szwergold

I Was Jewish for Two Years

By Larry Racioppo

A Christmas Tree on Prospect Park West

By Anthony M. Napoli

By Larry Racioppo

The Hour of the Golden Needles at the Verrazano Narrows

By Anthony M. Napoli

Around Staten Island in a Fourteen-Foot Sailboat

By Stas Holodnak

Dahlia on the Bus

By Julia Corrado

Extinguished: A 9/11 Story

By John Julius Reel

By John Julius Reel

HPD Property Manager

By Steven Seltzer

By Marlene Dunham

The Sigmund Freud of Barnes Avenue

By Raanan Geberer

Bronx Pinocchios of the Borscht Belt

By Eugene Barron

Mel Allen, Dads and Baseball

By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Biking through the Apocalypse

By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

On The Aesthetics of Urban Walking and Writing

By Phillip Lopate

Death Visits the Waterfront

By Phillip Lopate

By Bryan Charles

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