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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 [...]

Double or Nothing: Lessons in Confidence from Marty Reisman

By Karen Baicker

February 8, 2026

Inside SPiN One summer evening in 2010, I found myself leaving my job in Soho and heading uptown to SPiN, a trendy ping-pong club that had recently opened in the Flatiron District. Walking in was [...]

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America in Black and White

By Raphael Lasar

February 22, 2026

America in Black and White

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, as children, didn’t appreciate it. They were, variously—a labor organizer, literary critic, foreign editor at a major news wire service, an influential minister, and an obscure struggling abstract impressionist who would, many years later, become a prominent figure in the art world. Another parent was the downtown Black actress and political activist, Vinie Burrows. We just knew her though as Gregory’s mom. She once made a lemon meringue pie that was so awful I couldn’t eat it. I think she forgot to add sugar, and [...]

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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