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Art of the 80s
By
Dan Hubbs
July 26, 2026
Over the years I’d read about Kenny’s Castaways on Bleecker Street and how Patti Smith and other music luminaries played there. I didn’t realize, until recently, that I’d been there. I’d seen Big Joe Williams, the
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Microwave Confidential
By
Laurie Joachim
July 19, 2026
Friends who don’t live in New York City often ask me what’s the toughest thing about living here. My go to answer is always: Finding a place to live. I want enough space for all
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Rector Street Counseling Part 2
By
Abigail Frankfurt
August 2, 2026
To protect the privacy of the individuals depicted, some names and identifying details have been changed. Part 1 of this story was published on May 31, 2026. You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Work Here …But It Helps I meet with Richard – he wears a short length pearl necklace outside of a turtleneck sweater. He’s always harried – baldheaded and transitioning – his breasts look the size of mine in junior high school. The shelves in his office are lined with brown and black Barbie dolls – at least 40 that I can see. Richard makes all the clothes for his Barbies – and it reminds me of Project Runway. Today the dolls are wearing black – I
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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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