Jason Schwartzman
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The King of New York
From Astoria &Queens about Astoria, Neighborhood Life, QueensPublished on: 03/05/2017
Jason Schwartzman is a writer who has lived in three boroughs (so far). He edits for the adventure magazine True.Ink and the writing platform Claudius Speaks. One year he coached high school soccer and the team won the league championship and even the public bus driver flicked the lights on and off in salute.
“Mr. Hamm, this is Detective Scarcella. You’re the guy who only said one nice thing about me–that I’m ‘fit.’ ” “It’s true!” I replied. “You were the big guy in the back, correct?” he said, referring to the Brooklyn courtroom where he testified in mid-May. “You could say that, sure,” I said, taking his jab. […]
It may be ever-present, this sense that we are teetering on the edge of apocalypse, but these days it seems the custodians of volatile and otherwise crazy behavior are on a whole new level. I won’t pretend that when I was in my 30s and running around on weekend nights with my friends that we […]
“So, when you’re not here at Barney Greengrass serving smoked fish, you’re a writer, eh? That’s interesting. Interesting. We should talk. I have a big idea. We’ve got to talk, yeah.” These weren’t the first words Dr. Jonathan Zizmor had ever spoken to me, but they marked a transition in our relationship from my simply […]
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