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When You Get Kicked by a White Guy
by Danish Ahmed Aamir 04/23/2017Neighborhood: Featured, Manhattan, Tribeca
When I decided to move to the United States for college, I traded my relatively calm and peaceful life in a decidedly “dangerous” country for a different, perhaps more potent danger that haunted me day and night: being a target because of the color of my skin.
The Turtle Pond
by Su Young Lee 04/16/2017Neighborhood: Central Park, Featured, Manhattan
Despite my eagerness to come to New York, I was disillusioned my first few months living there. I spent more time in my room than out on the streets I had so romanticized, and which always seemed to disappoint with their dirty pavements. But I’m growing to love New York for what it is rather than for my fantasized idea of it.
How to Break into Your Own Apartment
by Cat DeLaura 04/02/2017Neighborhood: Manhattan
It was well after midnight. My father and I sat on the stoop outside my new apartment on Thompson Street eating burgers in the late August heat, unable to get in. A cockroach scuttled beneath my feet and up the small half-wall to where my fries lay. “Ugh! Why?!” I jumped to the opposite side […]
The Eggs of Protest
by Máté Mohos 03/26/2017Neighborhood: Manhattan
The morning after the election I didn’t really want to leave my bed. Even though I am not an American citizen, the happenings of the night before shocked and numbed me so much that I couldn’t find the power to face the day. I wanted to stay where I was and try to forget about […]
See You in New York
by Olivia Sjostedt 03/19/2017Neighborhood: Central Park, Manhattan, World Trade Center
Before I left Sweden to move to New York, I hugged my dad, not knowing that it would be the last time.
Homeward
by Angel Eduardo 03/12/2017Neighborhood: Manhattan, Washington Heights
“Lemuel,” my mother cried out to me. “No puedo ver.” I looked up. Her eyes were shut, her grip was tight around my hand, and she was telling me she couldn’t see.
City Frog
by Celia Barbour 02/19/2017Neighborhood: Manhattan, SoHo
A chance encounter with a "poster child for biodiversity" sitting on a trash heap in Manhattan. A romance ensues.
“I Got You”
by Omri Bezalel 08/07/2016Neighborhood: Chelsea, Manhattan
Deep down I knew why I couldn’t pay at the register. But the following day I still showed up. César motioned for me to keep walking.
You’re Out of the Night
by Beth Hahn 06/17/2016Neighborhood: Flushing, Lower East Side, Queens, Uncategorized
I didn’t tell Dull that I wondered what I was doing with my life as I sat in my windowless, air-conditioned classroom—when I began to understand that a break year meant not really being at home anywhere.
Subway CPR
by Lisa Smith 04/26/2016Neighborhood: Times Square
His face was a pale green, his eyes rolled in the back of his sockets—an ordinary man on an ordinary day. Until now, lying on a subway floor.
The Tape
by Martin Kleinman 04/26/2016Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Chelsea, Jackson Heights, Manhattan, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Sunset Park
Every week I bought a cassette tape and poured my heart out to the Shrink. We were discussing my parents when a long-buried memory sprung to mind
New York! Just Like I Pictured It, Sorta. Well, No.
by Sharon Watts 03/16/2016Neighborhood: Hell's Kitchen, Midtown
My plan was to bond in private with the city I had chosen as my future home.