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Halloween in Park Slope, 1982
By
Larry Racioppo
October 25, 2026
Cool Group on Union Street Saturday began with an afternoon feast on Webster Place at Mark and Penny’s home. It was a post Bar Mitzvah party for their son Glenn. My buddy Ron and I
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On Fires and Floods and Confronting the Abyss
By
Andy Bragen
October 18, 2026
This past July, while visiting Grass Valley, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, I nearly died. I was driving my mother-in-law’s 1991 Toyota Previa on my way back to her house from
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PJ
By
Thomas Rayfiel
November 1, 2026
PJ cut hair. She was a middle-aged woman in bib overalls. Her shop, barely advertising itself as such (PJ’s For Men), was on Second Avenue. She was leery about taking new clients. She never did women. “Too much trouble.” She scored markings—eighths of an inch, like a ruler—onto the spine of her comb, so she could accurately measure the length of each individual strand. She was brusque, all business, but after you got to know her she would talk. She had wanted to become a makeup artist but at the time the union was closed to blacks. She cut hair in Harlem for many years, then relocated “downtown,” as she called it, to the Upper East Side. She had no
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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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