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Prall’s Island
by Dorothy Spears 04/15/2010Neighborhood: Prall's Island
… lost. I didn’t care. For that moment, at least, all the risks I’d taken were worth it. Dorothy Spears is a New York-based writer and arts journalist. Her anthology, Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying, was published last year by Open City Books. Author: Dorothy Spears
Reading Series April 30th at Happy Ending Lounge
by Thomas Beller 01/22/2010Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Join us on FRIDAY, APRIL 30th, 8pm at Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street on the Lower East Side. Free, and open to the public. Readers are PATRICK W. GALLAGHER, ERIC NELSON, DOROTHY SPEARS, and FAITH WURTZEL. The host is CONNOR GAUDET. Patrick W. Gallagher is the founder, curator, and host of Animal Farm […]
My Mother’s Garden
by Dorothy Spears 05/08/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights
The author’s childhood home in Greenwich. (Photo by Alexis Rockman) Even after we all were married, with children of our own, my siblings and I would celebrate Mother’s Day in Greenwich. If the weather was good, we ate sandwiches with our mother and father on the porch, watching our children run together, and split apart, […]
God Must Be An Octopus
by Dorothy Spears 03/25/2008Neighborhood: Manhattan
We were on our way to school, my two sons and I. It was their first day back since the World Trade Center attacks last Tuesday. The weather was eerily beautiful, as it has been all these days. We were smiling and I felt brave. Their conversation was light and chatty. We are going to […]
In Search of a New Season: For the Knicks and the Rest of Us
by Dorothy Spears 06/15/2006Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Since my boyfriend, Alexis, injured his shoulder playing pick-up basketball, he’s been watching games from the sideline. Usually he’ll just stop for a couple of minutes, en route to wherever he—or we—are going. If a pick-up buddy says, “What’s up?” he’ll sometimes give them one of those street-hugs, where they grab each other’s hand and […]
Tupperware with a Twist
by Dorothy Spears 04/28/2003Neighborhood: West Village
All those who believe Tupperware parties have gone the way of Suzy Homemaker may have cause to break out the crinoline. As a party at PROUN space studio has recently demonstrated, Tupperware is alive and glib in the West Village. No longer the exclusive domain of Valium-popping post-WWII housewives, this particular Tupperware party, given by […]
9/11 Archive
by Thomas Beller 12/26/2002Neighborhood: Multiple, World Trade Center
The View From the Seventieth Floor by Sandy Gelpieryn Death Masks at Ground Zero by Kendra Hurley The Numbers by Bryan Charles The View From Silver Lake Park by Gabrielle Walter Don’t Look Back by Kevin McLeod Scenes From The Brooklyn Bridge by Jim Merlis The View From Long Island Part Ii by Adam […]
Outward Bound on the East River
by Dorothy Spears 07/11/2002Neighborhood: Multiple, The East River
It was the beginning of summer and my two young sons had taken to counting Jaguars. “There’s one!” Alex, then eight, would cry, elated, from the backseat of the car. “Oh, there’s another one.” “Look over there—there’s two more!” five-year-old Ferran would trill. Anyone unfamiliar with the Hamptons might have assumed we were on a […]
Letters to the Principal
by Dorothy Spears 02/04/2002Neighborhood: Manhattan
All the names in this article have been changed, except for the author’s. November 29, 1998 Carol Suskind, Principal Fielding Elementary Day School Lower Manhattan Dear Carol, As you are probably aware, my son, Luke is a student at Fielding, in Debra’s 4/5’s class. Last week, I found Luke huddled in a corner outside his […]
An Urban Archeologist at Ground Zero
by Dorothy Spears 01/10/2002Neighborhood: Financial District
There is the sense that we are doing something wrong, Diana Wall and I, as we walk south from Franklin Street toward what is arguably Manhattan’s most compelling dig site, the hill of rubble that was, until recently, the World Trade Center. Wall is a New York-based archaeologist, whose book, “Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of […]
James Bogardus:
The Inventor’s Triangle
by Dorothy Spears 01/02/2002Neighborhood: Tribeca
Bogardus was a watch-maker and inventor who was awarded thirteen US patents and one British patent, for clocks, spinning machinery, grinding mills, gas meters, and devices for pressing glass cuttings, working with rubbers and making postage stamps. He built the first cast-iron fa?ade in history in 1848 at 183 Broadway (it has since been destroyed). […]
See You Later, Alligator
by Dorothy Spears 11/04/2001Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights
A favorite phrase of my mother’s, those early days in Brooklyn, was “See you later, Alligator.” She would send my brother Wally to play with his friend next door. And she would leave me with Fanny, the so-called cleaning lady, a monolithic black woman who took perverse pleasure in threatening to scrub my mouth with […]