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The Liquor Store Bag In The Tree
by Sam DeFazio 07/26/2012Neighborhood: Upper West Side
It’s been there for almost three years now. I first noticed it on a bleak January morning as the lifeless branches of the tree across the street from my front window swayed in a wintry wind. At first I thought it was a large bird. After all, raptors had been spotted down the block in […]
Apartment 7
by melissa petro 07/18/2012Neighborhood: Upper East Side
When I moved into my apartment going on four years ago, the building looked like a movie star fifty years past her prime. It was in such a condition that they were being ordered by the city to make capital improvements and were continually fined until they did so. I of course had loved its […]
The Problem With Bliss
by Risa Mickenberg 07/12/2012Neighborhood: Uncategorized, Upper West Side
Her niece laughed in his face and squirmed out of his grasp and ran down the hall and slammed the bathroom door. Her fiancé stomped out of the room and she could hear him pounding on the bathroom door and her niece shrieking. It was good, so good that they all got along. Her brother, […]
Baby Fever
by Samuel Howard 07/07/2012Neighborhood: Cobble Hill
My wife and I live on the ground floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill. Freak luck. I’d never last the brutal NYC housing quest, let alone land in such a choice spot. But just when we resolved to move out of my brother’s spare matchbox bedroom years back, a friend with connections gave […]