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In 1991, Joe Chinnici, my landlord, offered me a cash deal if I would decline to renew my lease. The top-floor apartment at the corner of Bleecker Street and the Bowery had been my home for 13 years, the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere, before or since. In retrospect, I like to think that it was my true childhood home; [...]
My first trip to New York as an adult was around a year ago. I went for only three days (to walk Peter Do’s Helmut Lang show) and was put up just off one of Times Square’s endlessly linear streets, in a VERY large hotel, constructed with long metal beams stretching endlessly into the sky. Stepping out of the taxi [...]
The woman who would speak to us was older, long brown hair draped over her small shoulders. She sat across from an older man, sparse white hair running in a moat around the castle of his bald spot. They were engaged in fervid one-sided conversation that mostly involved the woman; the man did not look amused. My family had taken [...]
Eddie Boros' Tower of Toys, 6th St. and Avenue B (2008) --- I was walking along East Second Street in the East Village when I saw a man brushing out his long curly hair as he walked toward me. He stopped, pulled a clump of hair from the brush and let it go in the breeze. Not a huge fan [...]
