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Moving to Queens
by Nancy Stiefel 03/06/2022Neighborhood: Morningside Heights, Sunnyside
I lived in Manhattan for most of my considerably long life, until moving to Queens four years ago. In my early adulthood, Manhattan was still affordable, so affordable that the people who worked the jobs that sustain city life—cops, teachers, garbage men, hospital and transit workers—could afford to live in certain areas of it. So […]
Broken Glass
by Nicholas Hamburger 02/13/2022Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Last January, days before I was due to return to New Orleans from New York, a fire broke out in my parents’ apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I had come to the city in the midst of the pandemic to repopulate my life, albeit temporarily: the first week belonged to my […]
Shoveling Snow
by Mike Feder 01/30/2022Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Out early yesterday morning after the big snowfall. The streets are being cleared. God, it’s been years since I did any of that. Now I have no car to dig out, no store to clear the street for; nothing special to worry about (save for not slipping on the ice and cracking my old bones). […]