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Easier Than it Looks
by Dan Baum 03/03/2016Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Since it was none of my goddamn business, I asked him, “You get around the city completely blind, or do you have some vision?”
My Damn Love Affair
by Gloria Zimmerman 01/18/2016Neighborhood: All Over, Uncategorized, Upper West Side
The New York of the 80’s was not a town that met you halfway. It really didn’t give a damn what happened to you.
Bed Bugs and Rolling Stones
by Duncan Birmingham 01/11/2016Neighborhood: Uncategorized, Upper West Side
The house phone in my room often rang in the middle of the night. I’d answer hoping to talk to someone but there was never anyone there.
West Side Judaica: “He had a chance to go big”
by Dan Baum 12/15/2015Neighborhood: Upper West Side
The story behind the Upper West Side store
Wild Thing
by Elizabeth Cohen 03/11/2015Neighborhood: Upper West Side
I was walking down the Broadway near Lincoln Center with my old friend Ruth Lopez when we came upon two people on the sidewalk, doing it.
Dancing in the Dark
by Helen Mandlin 10/13/2014Neighborhood: Greenwich Village, Upper West Side
That's when I met him. Fourteen years my senior, in the theater, and unbeknownst to me on that night, a man with a very checkered past. I hadn’t yet heard of Freud or Oedipus. Even with my one short lived marriage to my high school sweetheart, behind me, all I believed in were happy endings.
Pimping Trixie
by nancy stiefel 02/02/2014Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Nancy Stiefel tells the tale of pimping her Upper West Side poodle, Trixie, to the many dog walkers of Central Park.
Respect for the Dead
by Claudette Bakhtiar 04/08/2013Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Claudette Bakhtiar has to look. Wouldn't you?
At Home on the Church Steps
by Mindy Lewis 02/08/2013Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Mindy Lewis' neighbor is evicted and living on the streets. Meanwhile his apartment sits empty.
Stellar Decisions
by Leah Zibulsky 12/04/2012Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Leah Zibulsky believes in fate for one night.
Doc Pomus
by Mary Shanley 10/03/2012Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Mary Shanley found an unlikely guardian angel in an award-winning songwriter/record producer.
Larry’s Bench
by Elizabeth S Titus 09/25/2012Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Liz Titus is shocked to learn of an old friend's death from a commemorative plaque marking a bench in Central Park.