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America in Black and White

By Raphael Lasar

February 22, 2026

Tompkins Square Park When I was kid growing up on the Lower East Side in the 60s and 70s a few of my friends’ parents were more than just parents. They were notables, although we, [...]

Downtown Palimpsest

By Aurelie Bernard Wortsman

February 15, 2026

Sunlit Shadows: An Alphabet City Summer, 2019Ink, graphite, colored pencil, and soft pastel on paper9 × 14 inches© Aurélie Bernard Wortsman — Downtown Palimpsest extends Aurélie Bernard Wortsman’s ongoing portrait of a city in flux through [...]

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Greg Purcell Then and Now

By Zoe Kalaw and Henry Kaplan

March 8, 2026

Greg Purcell Then and Now

St Marks Bookshop circa. 2008 Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Stories and Writers Revisited Editorial Introduction by Zoe Kalaw In the early 2000s, Greg Purcell wrote three pieces for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. They were funny, self-aware, and sharply observant, attuned to the minor humiliations and quiet revelations of New York City life. Like many of the site’s contributions from that period, they did not announce themselves as important. They trusted that the texture of the city—its jobs, its rooms, its passing encounters—was enough. Purcell’s pieces were written between 2001 and 2003, during a moment when New York still supported a large population of people who lived close to its cultural surface without fully belonging to it. He worked at St. Mark’s Bookshop, [...]

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

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 Person You Really Don’t Want to Run Into

By Henry Kaplan

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

Larry Bird Walks into a Bar

By Tom Diriwachter

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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