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Summer 1988. Apollo’s white-hot chariot blazed through the blue sky over East Village Grocery on Avenue A. A gray-haired grocer sprayed rainbows across his fruits and vegetables in front of the store. On the sidewalk in front of me, a little old lady in a lavender moomoo and matching bob walked her poodle. Approaching from the opposite direction, a long-hair [...]
YOU OLD BAT! My grandmother’s apartment in the Ansonia Hotel was a wild place but in the worst way. The fights between my mother and grandmother were as volatile as the fights my mother had with my father before he left. When my mother came home from work, I’d feel her rage outside the door. Here it comes, I thought, [...]
From the editor: We are excited to publish an excerpt from Baye McNeils’ new memoir, You Couldn’t Tell Me Shit! Coming of Age in the County of Kings, 1980-1985 about growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Baye’s book, a serialized memoir available on his Substack is accompanied by photographs from the period by the legendary Jamel Shabazz The Mish [...]
