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Spotting Counterfeit Watches and AI
By
T.S. Carney
July 12, 2026
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
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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
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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 my ridiculous possessions and fabulous frocks. I want my bed to not be part of the kitchen. Though the thought of grabbing a beer out of the fridge while in bed has its appeal. I don’t want my bathtub to double as my kitchen sink. But the number one challenge of finding an apartment in NYC; I have to be able to afford it. Aye, there’s the rub. When I first moved to New York, I stayed with my friends on Christopher Street in Greenwich
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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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