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Happy Father’s Day
by Martin Kleinman 06/15/2019Neighborhood: Bronx, New Jersey
The phone call came on a steamy summer morning, while I was stuck in traffic on the Central Park transverse, the Met’s Temple of Dendur off to my right. A nurse from my father’s hospital equivocated her way through the call. He had been in failing health. “Where are you now?” she finally asked, with […]
The Love Seat (A Ghost Story)
by Thomas R. Pryor 10/21/2012Neighborhood: Yorkville
As a boy in the early 1960s, I’d go up my grandparents’ second floor apartment on York Avenue several times a week. Their hallway was lit by one low watt exposed bulb. The dark hall frightened me. Sometimes my fear was compounded when I’d hear fuzzy radio sounds coming from the usually locked basement. I […]
We Had Never Heard of Pearl Harbor
by FRED J ABRAHAMS 12/09/2011Neighborhood: Uncategorized, Upper West Side
I hated Saturdays. We had been moderately observant Jews in the small German town where we had lived before we fled to the US. The trauma and anxiety of starting over in a new land with two young children and the horror stories that were filtering out of Europe pushed my mother towards the security […]
G-2183
by Phyllis Schieber 05/01/2011Neighborhood: Washington Heights
When Jeffrey and I argue, my mother always weeps. “Shame on you,” she says. “I wish my brother, Shmuel, was still here for me to argue with. Shame on you!” My brother and I hang our heads. We wait for her to leave the room, but she is not yet finished. “Is this what I […]