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From My Notebook — April, 1971
By
Larry Racioppo
September 20, 2026
It was the Saturday night before Easter Sunday. I was restless. At around 10 PM, I left my storefront darkroom in Sunset Park and walked across 39th Street to Vinnie’s candy store for an egg
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Playing House in SoHo, 1981
By
Dorian Burden
September 13, 2026
I arrived on Thompson Street in a yellow cab with one suitcase and $200 I’d saved from babysitting. That July morning in 1981 a radio DJ had declared it one of the ten best days
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Sunday Afternoon Ordeals
By
Roberta Allen
September 27, 2026
My father’s mantra was, “I want ya to be healthy and strong.” More than ever, he wanted me to be athletic. Me! Athletic! Since he’d left, I’d done nothing but accompany my grandmother on errands after school, sit in the sun with her in the park or in front of the bank, and take ballet lessons once a week. In a moment of anger, my mother had said, “Your father wanted a boy!” I’m sure that’s true. How much easier it would’ve been for him. He would’ve called me Butch, taught me how to play baseball and taken me to Yankee Stadium. Later, he would’ve taken me to prize fights and wrestling matches and the racetrack, no doubt. I would’ve
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Manhattan
Downtown Palimpsest
By
Aurelie Bernard Wortsman
Dahlia on the Bus
By
Julia Corrado
Passion Project
By
Nick Farina
En El Building
By
Perla Celeste Núñez
Moving On: Leaving the Bowery
By
Susan T. Landry
Queens
Sonbob’s
By
Nancy Stiefel
Take the 7 Train
By
Fredda Rosen
A Rallying Cry for the 2025 Mets
By
Fred Smith
Airport Rejects
By
Lily Lopate
A Day at the Track: Aqueduct, 1972
By
Larry Racioppo
Brooklyn
The Lone Ranger Faces Life
By
Norbert Weissberg
Laughing, Screaming, Crying: P.S. 100, Trump Village and Brighton Beach
By
Jack Szwergold
I Was Jewish for Two Years
By
Larry Racioppo
A Christmas Tree on Prospect Park West
By
Anthony M. Napoli
Labor Day
By
Larry Racioppo
Staten Island
Fourth of July 1975
By
Larry Racioppo
The Hour of the Golden Needles at the Verrazano Narrows
By
Anthony M. Napoli
Around Staten Island in a Fourteen-Foot Sailboat
By
Stas Holodnak
Dahlia on the Bus
By
Julia Corrado
Extinguished: A 9/11 Story
By
John Julius Reel
The Bronx
HPD Property Manager
By
Steven Seltzer
Going Home
By
Marlene Dunham
The Sigmund Freud of Barnes Avenue
By
Raanan Geberer
Bronx Pinocchios of the Borscht Belt
By
Eugene Barron
Mel Allen, Dads and Baseball
By
Fred Smith
Landmarks
Graffiti
By
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Biking through the Apocalypse
By
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
On The Aesthetics of Urban Walking and Writing
By
Phillip Lopate
Death Visits the Waterfront
By
Phillip Lopate
The Numbers
By
Bryan Charles
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