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Piano Piece
by Elizabeth Bales Frank 01/28/2015Neighborhood: Astoria
A vintage piano stood alone on a deserted city street. Moments earlier, the piano had been saved from oblivion by a man named Oscar, who had stepped out of his apartment just as the workers of the New York City Sanitation Department had been struggling to lift the piano into the whining maw of their […]
Al Pimsler: A Man’s Men’s Illustrator
by Sharon Watts 01/20/2015Neighborhood: Uncategorized
A dapper anomaly in those still shaggy post-Woodstock years, he walked with purpose and panache to the Saks Fifth Avenue offices where he took up residence at the drawing table. Handsome. Diminutive yet self-assured, debonaire, even–an outdated word, but it suited. With a full head of white hair waving back from a fulcrum of dark […]
Two Guys Talking on the Corner
by Thomas R. Pryor 01/06/2015Neighborhood: Yorkville
Dad and I did four things together: play sports, attend sports, watch TV, and go to the movies. I liked movies the best; it’s much harder telling a kid what to do in the dark. You would have loved taking me to the movies when I was 6 years old. I was a cheap date, […]