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It’s a Friday night in 1994, and I’m with my friend Ann on our way to Veniero’s in the East Village. On most Fridays, we both waitress at a local Mexican restaurant, but we have this night off when our restaurant is shut down by the Department of Health because the ceiling over the smoking section is collapsing. At a [...]
During the summer of 1978 I worked as a Good Humor man. I would push a cart from the Good Humor depot, located at 3rd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, on the Lower East Side, to Exchange Place in the financial district of lower Manhattan, where I would sell the company’s offerings to traders, office workers, messengers, or anyone [...]
