Helen Mandlin
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Dancing in the Dark
From Greenwich Village &Upper West Side about jealousy, marriage, performance, Relationships, romance, singer, singing, theater, whirlwind romancePublished on: 10/13/2014
A native New Yorker, graduate of the HIgh School of Performing Arts.
A singer/dancer/actress I wound up teaching kindergarten in Chelsea and Greenwich Village. Eventually I became a psychoanalyst. I retired in 2013 after 25 years in private practice. Along the way I continued singing, wriiting my own cabaret act. I have one son who lives in DC. I've been an upper west sider since 1974. I am currently writing a memoir, entitled
Death, Divorce & Real Estate: An Upper West Side Story.
Harlem Superstar: DJ Hollywood & the Birth of Hip-Hop This year the world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop culture. While it includes elements of break dancing and graffiti, most people’s first thoughts about the genre go to the rappers and DJs behind the music. It has been written that the soundtrack to the […]
It was quite an operation. Lookouts on walkie-talkies patrolled the roofline, and a scout on a bike pedaled up and down the block, combing 7th Street between Avenues B and C. A guy in a ski mask stood guard at an open window on one of the apartment building’s upper floors, ready to service the […]
Illustrations by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman The following is the third installment in a work in progress, Observations on Urban Fauna, a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. Text and image are gleaned from the lifelong perambulations on asphalt and cement by two native New […]
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