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Never Mind the Notes
by Peter Wortsman 09/27/2020Neighborhood: Gramercy Park, Murray Hill
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” – Louis Armstrong At the time I fancied myself a budding talent, though I’d have been hard pressed to say at what. Singer-songwriter was my latest label, only I sang mostly in the shower and once toweled dry could never quite manage to make […]
Piano Piece
by Elizabeth Bales Frank 01/28/2015Neighborhood: Astoria
A vintage piano stood alone on a deserted city street. Moments earlier, the piano had been saved from oblivion by a man named Oscar, who had stepped out of his apartment just as the workers of the New York City Sanitation Department had been struggling to lift the piano into the whining maw of their […]