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Stories From Fire Engine 16
by Interviews and introduction by EDWARD HELMORE 11/09/2001Neighborhood: Murray Hill
Interviews and introduction by EDWARD HELMORE Fire Department of New York Firehouse 16-7. 234 East 29th Street, Manhattan. September 11, 2001. On the riding list of Engine 16 were Lieutenant Mickey Kross and firefighters Tim Marmion, Paul Lee, Pete Fallucca, and trainee firefighter Sean Brown. On the riding list of Tower Ladder 7: Lt. Vernon […]
More Stories From Engine 16
by Interviews and introduction by EDWARD HELMORE 11/06/2001Neighborhood: Murray Hill
Paul Lee I came in about 8:30 that morning, changed into my uniform, and then a few minutes later they announced plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I was thinking to myself, is this real or is it just a fake or is it an accident, whatever it was. Just a few minutes […]
Calese Becker: The Poetics Of Smell
by Thomas Beller 01/02/2001Neighborhood: Murray Hill
These days, it is she who gets on her tip toes when we greet each other or say good-bye. But she still wears that same perfume for special evenings, and when I smell it I’m transported, without even being aware of it, not so much to a particular time, but to a feeling, that wondrous, […]
Coffee Hut Slut
by Ariele Fierman 01/02/2001Neighborhood: Murray Hill
I have been flirting with the coffee man for about three weeks now. Every morning, as I am about to round the corner into the construction site I work near, I ask him for a large coffee, skim no sugar three Equals. The first time I went to him, he asked me how many sugars […]