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Tompkins Square Park When I was kid growing up on the Lower East Side in the 60s and 70s a few of my friends’ parents were more than just parents. They were notables, although we, as children, didn’t appreciate it. They were, variously—a labor organizer, literary critic, foreign editor at a major news wire service, an influential minister, and an [...]
Sunlit Shadows: An Alphabet City Summer, 2019Ink, graphite, colored pencil, and soft pastel on paper9 × 14 inches© Aurélie Bernard Wortsman -- Downtown Palimpsest extends Aurélie Bernard Wortsman’s ongoing portrait of a city in flux through three interconnected sites. The series opens in Alphabet City, where a vacant lot, overgrown and sunlit, marks the city in a moment of pause. Neither [...]
Inside SPiN One summer evening in 2010, I found myself leaving my job in Soho and heading uptown to SPiN, a trendy ping-pong club that had recently opened in the Flatiron District. Walking in was a bit daunting. It felt more like a hip nightclub than any ping-pong venue I’d been to or any bar I’d enjoy. But once I [...]
