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City owned buildings in the Tremont section of the Bronx. All photos by Larry Racioppo. --- In the summer of 1988, I applied for a job at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). For the two years prior, I had been managing low-income properties in the Bronx and Manhattan for a management company and also [...]
I first tried cocaine off of a chessboard, while listening to Lou Reed in my West Village studio apartment with a girl named after the Central American country in which she was conceived. I remember thinking that for brief moments life really could be a movie if you made it one. The girl and I were in the same cosmology [...]
