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Image and photos by Joe "Kirsch" Curcio I’m convinced that one of the reasons New York is considered “the city that never sleeps” is alternate side-of-the-street parking. The truth is, at 8 a.m. in Greenpoint, you stand a better chance of scoring a jelly donut at Peter Pan before they sell out than you do of finding a legal parking [...]
Roberto Duran (L) is hit with a left punch from Edwin Viruet Over lunch in the Bronx, “The Puerto Rican Ali” reflects on the life that slipped away with the scorecards ________________ Two red nose pitbulls, an open fire hydrant, and a dozen soaking-wet kids stood between us and the Bronx hole-in-the-wall diner. Edwin Viruet and I kept one eye [...]
“Careful with that!” I exclaimed to my new husband, Harry, as he carried my Art Deco stained glass window up the stairs to our new apartment. I had gotten the window, a gift from my parents, when I married Harry in 1967. We were both so excited to move into an apartment over a diner in the Meatpacking District, where [...]
The final summer of my father’s life, I worked for him as a runner, making food deliveries at his restaurant. He and I weren’t getting along too well. I had just turned seventeen and my mother had died the previous winter, either one of which would have meant a strained relationship, but the combination was a killer. I had long [...]
