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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 [...]

Around Staten Island in a Fourteen-Foot Sailboat

By Stas Holodnak

January 31, 2026

I didn’t pay much attention to Zim Scorpio at first. The container ship was far away — little more than a dark outline on the water. I’d passed plenty of freighters in far worse wind [...]

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Downtown Palimpsest

By Aurelie Bernard Wortsman

February 15, 2026

Downtown Palimpsest

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 three interconnected sites. The series opens in Alphabet City, where a vacant lot, overgrown and sunlit, marks the city in a moment of pause. Neither abandoned nor renewed, the space holds a quiet suspension and frames the city through what lingers rather than what dominates. The focus then shifts to the social surface of downtown. A corner luncheonette advertising “Checks Cashed” evokes New York City in the 1980s, capturing a rhythm of urban life shaped by commerce, survival, and neighborhood routines. The city appears active [...]

Dahlia on the Bus

By Julia Corrado

Passion Project

By Perla Celeste Núñez

Moving On: Leaving the Bowery

By Susan T. Landry

Between the Catwalk and the Pavement

By Lucas Chancellor

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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