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Welcome to New York City
by Jeff Loeb 11/20/2022Neighborhood: Featured, Ridgewood
The atmosphere seemed different coming home. You could feel it stepping off the train. A March chill penetrated our light jackets, and we caught ourselves shivering. Off to the west, fog obscured Manhattan’s glow. The empty subway cars clattered away, headed for the end of the line; oddly, we’d been the only riders in ours […]
Two Guys Talking on the Corner
by Thomas R. Pryor 01/06/2015Neighborhood: Yorkville
Dad and I did four things together: play sports, attend sports, watch TV, and go to the movies. I liked movies the best; it’s much harder telling a kid what to do in the dark. You would have loved taking me to the movies when I was 6 years old. I was a cheap date, […]
Baby Through the Looking Glass
by Patrick J. Sauer 04/11/2011Neighborhood: Lower East Side, Uncategorized
On a brisk bright February afternoon, father and baby daughter entered the Sunshine Theater on Houston Street. A planned Cobble Hill Cinemas screening of Duck Soup the month before had been canceled due to a single-digit temperature (sorry Groucho, Daddy really wanted it), so this was to be the four-month-old infant’s maiden moviegoing voyage. The […]