Twilight of the Koffee Klatch
Back when coffee was just coffee I’ve been sick off and on all freakin’ month so haven’t had the energy to gather material for this freakin’ blog . . . On better days, to get out of the house, I’ve...
View ArticleLet it snow, let it snow . . .
View from the window in the eye of the storm. New York survived the blizzard. Schools closed, businesses closed, New Jersey closed – it was a big deal! From my perspective, the worst thing was all...
View ArticleBraddock, Pensylvania – the next Lower East Side?
Carnegie Library - Braddock PA Perhaps. But likely not anytime soon. I first became aware of Braddock, PA last summer, through an article in my Google news alert from the People’s Weekly World (‘We...
View ArticleThe Recession is Now on the Coney Island Boardwalk
Sunshine morning, 9 am . . . A dozen Mexican guys gathered around a pavillion. We say ‘Mexican’, but they could have come from Mexic0 or central America, or even Ecuador or Peru. Down the boardwalk,...
View ArticleTimes Square
Note: this post is from a couple of months ago. I just didn’t get around to putting it up until now. I went down through Times Square last week. I haven’t been through the Square in a few years and I...
View ArticleWarm Weather Brings It All Out . . .
This morning at my morning cafe . . . Two guys chased another guy down the street – waving hammers. I didn’t see it but the cafe owner, a long-time Bed-Stuy resident, did. “He ran into the welfare...
View ArticleSurvival
Image: Jefft Hanging outside my lower Manhattan local with D., who has lived in Soho since the 1980′s . . . A guy came up to us, holding what looked like a $20 dollar bill. He had the usual NY...
View ArticleT-Poutine and Early Memories of the Lower East Side
We met at T-Poutine, a narrow hole-in-the-wall on Ludlow Street. Forty Canadians, a couple of Americans, there for that curiously popular French-Canadian specialty, poutine. French fries with cheese...
View ArticleThe Violinist
Notes from the G train . . . Couple with two kids. Dominicans, Puerto Ricans – and very fat, not flabby fat like white people from small towns or the burbs, but ghetto fat, people who don’t drive but...
View ArticleStill A Few Surprise: Prospect Park
Just when you think the New York you knew is totally gone . . . A few surprises appear. Saturday in Prospect Park. The market out in force. I used to love markets. The markets in London, markets in...
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