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Fourth of July 1975

By Larry Racioppo

July 3, 2026

On a sunny day in 1975, I went to Travis, Staten Island to photograph its annual Fourth of July Parade. The parade ended in a large schoolyard directly across the street from the home of [...]

Titan (Part II)

By Baye Mc Neil

June 28, 2026

This week we are publishing Part II of “Titan,” an excerpt from Baye McNeils’ new memoir, You Couldn’t Tell Me Shit! Coming of Age in the County of Kings, 1980-1985 about growing up in Crown [...]

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Spotting Counterfeit Watches and AI

July 12, 2026

Spotting Counterfeit Watches and AI

When I was five, I learned poker. At seven, blackjack. But one of the most useful skills that I learned in my youth, which happened during school trips into the city, was how to tell the fake watches from the stolen real ones in a suitcase on the sidewalk. Maybe it’s a New York thing. You look. You lift. You feel. It looks like gold. It has the shine. The stones catch the light. But when you pick it up—too light. There’s the lie. The fake ones are always cleaner. Sharper edges. More perfect than anything real ever is. The real ones are dinged at the bezel. Cold in the hand. Weight that you don’t forget. “Twenty bucks, kid.” I [...]

Downtown Palimpsest

By Aurelie Bernard Wortsman

Dahlia on the Bus

By Julia Corrado

Passion Project

By Perla Celeste Núñez

Moving On: Leaving the Bowery

By Susan T. Landry

By Nancy Stiefel

Take the 7 Train

By Fredda Rosen

A Rallying Cry for the 2025 Mets

Airport Rejects

A Day at the Track: Aqueduct, 1972

By Larry Racioppo

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

By Larry Racioppo

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

HPD Property Manager

By Steven Seltzer

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 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

By Bryan Charles

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