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Is My Arched Spine Still Pretty?
by Kit Zauhar 01/15/2016Neighborhood: East Village, Manhattan, Uncategorized, Union Square
Right after it was done I wanted to try again, as if already I was searching for some way for him to give me more than he could.
Last Night at Mrs. C’s
by Jacob Margolies 04/16/2014Neighborhood: East Village
When we were kids, there was a bar we’d frequent on Fifth Street. It was called the Chic Choc, but we knew it either as Chic’s or Mrs. C’s.
An Education on Avenue B
by Jacob Margolies 03/23/2014Neighborhood: East Village
In 1971, Jacob's world was turned upside down when his parents decided to send him to a Jewish Day School on the Lower East Side.
After the Graveyard Shift
by Coree Spencer 01/28/2014Neighborhood: East Village
Despite going to great lengths to avoid being annoyed, mugged, or worse, Coree Spencer finds herself in a morning straight out of a nightmare.
Will Probably Be Late to the Party
by Marta Troicka 01/21/2014Neighborhood: East Village
Marta Troicka puts her nut allergy to the test in "Will Probably Be Late to the Party," a story that mixes parties and pine nuts with paranoia.
Good Humor
by Jacob Margolies 12/06/2013Neighborhood: Bowery, East Village, Lower East Side
A story about about a summer selling ice cream in the 1970s, the Hells Angels, Bowery flop houses and the down-and-out in the East Village.
Katya
by Eliza Berman 08/09/2013Neighborhood: East Village
Eliza Berman verbalizes the often inexpressible experience of the NYC transplant - feeling part anthropologist, part participant, wanting to be involved, but always partly detached.
Can I Get This To Go?
by Sofije Brija 07/02/2013Neighborhood: East Village
Sofije Brija has second thoughts about her late night snack when confronted by a hungry face
Date One
by Lea Thomas 06/28/2013Neighborhood: East Village
Lea Thomas describes in simple terms the simultaneously confusing, charming, awkward, comfortable, and often hazy experience of a first date.
Below 14th
by Jacob Margolies 05/30/2013Neighborhood: East Village, Lower East Side
In 1984 Jacob Margolies returns to his old neighborhood, the Lower East Side and can't believe the change - in the people as well as the place.
15 Seconds With Andy Warhol
by peter nolan smith 06/09/2012Neighborhood: All Over, East Village, Midtown
As a child Peter Nolan Smith draws Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can and dreams of working in Warhol's Factory. Years later, he tells Andy about it in person.
Get Busy
by Damian Van Denburgh 05/22/2012Neighborhood: East Village
Damian Van Denburgh moved to New York thinking he had lots of time to waste, until he met others who had once believed that as well.