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• We’re Back!

  by Mr Bellers Neighborhood 05/10/2023

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  Author: Mr Bellers Neighborhood

• Running Errands for Mr. Dubinsky

  by Jack Szwergold 12/02/2023

  It was around 1975 and I was maybe 8 years old. My $2 a week allowance worked well for my humble needs, and I didn’t necessarily want or need a job at that age, but my dad would ask me to run errands every now and then and let me keep some of the left-over change from the transaction.

  The errands consisted of the most basic and predictable stuff. Go out and buy loaf of bread, or a …

  Author: Jack Szwergold

• The Sigmund Freud of Barnes Avenue

  by Raanan Geberer 11/11/2023

  I first met Ari Horwitz in front of a pizzeria near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in 1978. I wasn’t in the habit of talking to people I didn’t know, but Ari was about my age, mid-20s, and we seemed to have an immediate psychic connection.

  Ari, it turned out, lived with a roommate on Barnes Avenue near Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, about 45 minutes from my own …

  Author: Raanan Geberer

• Porn That Gets You Into Hell for Sure

  by Tayler Lee 11/05/2023

  I am in my apartment in Woodside, Queens, reading C.S. Lewis. It is my first apartment that isn’t school housing, and I feel like a woman born again: reading, writing, thinking, manic with ideas and desires in a space all of my own. Though I am not Catholic- I’m technically Jewish but not in any personal way- I am fervent, nervous, giddy, passionate just for the sake of being. I …

  Author: Tayler Lee