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Of Rooftops and Cadavers
by Max Lauring 12/06/2020Neighborhood: Washington Heights
I’m sitting on the rooftop of my 31-floor apartment building looking down on a laughing couple drinking White Claws. Looking on like a creep–or maybe like an ever-watching god. Is there a difference? On an adjacent rooftop, a man probably my age is smoking a cigarette and crushing a six-pack. He’s been […]
The Sultry Scent of Formaldehyde
by Peter Wortsman 03/10/2019Neighborhood: East Village, Queens
My memories of high school are burdened by two deciding factors: the absence of girls and my aversion to math and science, both regrettable, given the fact that the prestigious institution I attended, Stuyvesant High School—then still in its old digs, a venerable building on East 15th Street—was all boys and all about math and […]