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Bento Box Bingo
by Ben Yagoda 02/26/2012Neighborhood: Lower East Side
Many things are curated in this day and age. Google will happily refer you to “a curated book,” “curated digital apps,” “a curated list of televised soccer games,” a “meticulously curated” fixed-gear bicycle boutique in Paris, and “a curated set of grooming products.” A curated door, such as can be found at 27 Ludlow Street […]
Call for Submissions – St. Patrick’s Day Stories
by Connor Gaudet 02/23/2012Neighborhood: News
Dear Neighbors, If you have a story about a wonderful or terrible St. Patrick’s Day spent in New York City, please share it with us. Selected submissions will be posted on St. Patrick’s Day and sent out in the Story of the Week email. Rolling deadline, but please try to have submissions in 5 days […]
Date Night At The Gambling Den
by Claudette Bakhtiar 02/15/2012Neighborhood: Midtown
My husband has figured out a way to play poker round the clock, save when he is at work, in the shower, reading a book or in bed sleeping. He plays it on his phone against other poker enthusiasts in round-the-clock online tournaments. It doesn’t bother me – he’s not the type to bet […]
175 Bleecker Street
by Mary Shanley 02/13/2012Neighborhood: Greenwich Village, Uncategorized
Annie was the whitest, white girl I ever did see. A walking anemic, she looked in perpetual need of a blood transfusion. If she were to walk through the halls of the high school dragging an I.V. pole with a bag of blood hanging off the top, I don’t think anybody would have batted an […]
Elevator Days
by Joseph Scalia 02/10/2012Neighborhood: Financial District, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
Whenever I go to a party or I am introduced to people I don’t know, they invariably ask me what I do. “What do you do?” And I always tell them, “I am an elevator operator.” I say that I drive an elevator in downtown Manhattan. The reaction to my announcement varies. Some people smile […]
The Balcony
by David M. Sandford 02/03/2012Neighborhood: Long Island
We moved into our apartment on a cold, windy April day. April Fool’s Day, actually. Susan and I didn’t know many people in town and we were looking forward to making new friends. As the movers struggled to get the bed and sofa up the narrow stairs, I looked out the tiny window in our […]
January 25, 1987
by Thomas R. Pryor 02/03/2012Neighborhood: Letter From Abroad
The New York Giants are heading to Indianapolis for their fifth Super Bowl. 25 years ago, I spent a perfect day in Pasadena. “Tommy, want some action?” Al said to me on the school bus. “No, the Giants are favored by 9 ½ points.” I answered. “What about over and under, it’s 39 ½?” Now […]