Recent Stories

• Babysitter to the Stars

  by Prudence Wright Holmes 10/17/2021

  I arrive in New York City in 1970 right after graduating from Carnegie Mellon Drama Department. I pray I’ll hit the big time, but in between auditions I look for flexible jobs to supplement my income. I leaf through the phone book and come to a page titled “Child Care.” One ad stands out “Babysitter’s Guild—the […]

• An Afternoon at Saks

  by Elizabeth Schoettle 10/03/2021

  I love Saks. It’s just like Bloomingdale’s, only bigger and the people don’t spray you as much; they just ignore you.  There was an open book in the Saks window called Sample. I stood there looking at it. Two pages were filled with fashion sketches of models with the Polaroid of the actual model next […]

• The Shtetl Next Door

  by Penina Warren 09/26/2021

  On the first of the month, I visit Benjamin Benowitz. Ben lives three blocks north and three avenues east from the apartment I rent.  The lobby of Ben’s’s building reads like the lobbies I have seen in movies about New York old money; all ostentation with marble and central air.  The walls in my own […]