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Rector Street Counseling Part 2
By
Abigail Frankfurt
August 2, 2026
To protect the privacy of the individuals depicted, some names and identifying details have been changed. Part 1 of this story was published on May 31, 2026. You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Work
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Art of the 80s
By
Dan Hubbs
July 26, 2026
Over the years I’d read about Kenny’s Castaways on Bleecker Street and how Patti Smith and other music luminaries played there. I didn’t realize, until recently, that I’d been there. I’d seen Big Joe Williams, the
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Faces
By
Mike Feder
August 9, 2026
I can’t imagine a time and place where it was considered in any way necessary or practical to put the face of a human, an animal, or some other creature, on the face of a building. These figures, generally called “Green Men” are now almost entirely relics of a vanished civilization. This face, and the dozens like it in my New York City neighborhood, has more in common with the ruins of Babylon or medieval Europe than it does with the modern world. Once, a face like this symbolized great power—a summoning of magical forces—of the deep currents of an unseen world. Now it’s nothing but a low-level curiosity; something of interest only to collectors of architectural trivia or a
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Manhattan
Downtown Palimpsest
By
Aurelie Bernard Wortsman
Dahlia on the Bus
By
Julia Corrado
Passion Project
By
Nick Farina
En El Building
By
Perla Celeste Núñez
Moving On: Leaving the Bowery
By
Susan T. Landry
Queens
Sonbob’s
By
Nancy Stiefel
Take the 7 Train
By
Fredda Rosen
A Rallying Cry for the 2025 Mets
By
Fred Smith
Airport Rejects
By
Lily Lopate
A Day at the Track: Aqueduct, 1972
By
Larry Racioppo
Brooklyn
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
Labor Day
By
Larry Racioppo
Staten Island
Fourth of July 1975
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
The Bronx
HPD Property Manager
By
Steven Seltzer
Going Home
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
Fred Smith
Landmarks
Graffiti
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
The Numbers
By
Bryan Charles
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