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Tompkins Square Park When I was kid growing up on the Lower East Side in the 60s and 70s a few of my friends’ parents were more than just parents. They were notables, although we, as children, didn’t appreciate it. They were, variously—a labor organizer, literary critic, foreign editor at a major news wire service, an influential minister, and an [...]
I was dropped off in Hell’s Kitchen with my turquoise vinyl trunk, my art school scholarship, and the soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy sensurrounding my dreams. Everybody's talking at me I don't hear a word they're saying Only the echoes of my mind I was eighteen, and ready for the 1970s. On my own. My stepfather-to-be had driven my mom and [...]
