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Blue Velvet Redux
by Julie Metz 05/27/2023Neighborhood: East Village
I wondered if a movie could produce the same terror decades on, even if I’d worked hard to forget the plot and its disquieting images. Like the severed ear lying in a field—a waxy dead thing, crawling with ants. And Dennis Hopper, huffing into a mask. Isabella Rossellini’s red mouth in eerie close-up. Not to […]
Tenements and Tribulations
by Eve Zanni 05/14/2023Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
We moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1980s, and at every landing of our fifth-floor tenement walk up there was a nose-full of tantalizing smells. This was in the very Italian section of the West Village, full of tenements that we called “V.I.V’s” or “Vertical Italian Villages.” The older folks, who sat out in front, chatting […]
We’re Back!
by Mr Bellers Neighborhood 05/10/2023Neighborhood: All Over
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