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Greg Purcell Then and Now

By Zoe Kalaw and Henry Kaplan

March 8, 2026

St Marks Bookshop circa. 2008 Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Stories and Writers Revisited Editorial Introduction by Zoe Kalaw In the early 2000s, Greg Purcell wrote three pieces for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. They were funny, self-aware, and [...]

America in Black and White

By Raphael Lasar

February 22, 2026

Tompkins Square Park When I was kid growing up on the Lower East Side in the 60s and 70s a few of my friends’ parents were more than just parents. They were notables, although we, [...]

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The Hour of the Golden Needles at the Verrazano Narrows

By Anthony M. Napoli

March 22, 2026

The Hour of the Golden Needles at the Verrazano Narrows

There we were, recent college graduates stuffed with random knowledge and useless information, still hanging out, wasting our time. The economy of the mid-to-late 1970s hadn’t been kind to boomer college grads. The Vietnam war had ended in defeat. A president had resigned in disgrace. New York City was facing bankruptcy, its economy in tatters. The American Dream no longer seemed ascendant. The internet was still decades away. No Indeed or ZipRecruiter. No way to apply for a slew of positions almost instantaneously. Job hunting back then involved scanning the classified employment ads in the newspapers—The New York Times at the time had a Sunday section that often ran over 80 pages devoted solely to classified job listings. Or [...]

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

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

The Person You Really Don’t Want to Run Into

By Henry Kaplan

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

By John Julius Reel

Larry Bird Walks into a Bar

By Tom Diriwachter

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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