Monthly Archives: November 2021

MAYBE TOMORROW Chapter 1 By Peter Nolan Smith

November 14, 2021 – 10:19 am

CHAPTER 1 The November sun flashed off a West Village window and the wavering reflection stalked the Christopher Street pier to a lone youth tuning a battered guitar. His skin pallor rivaled the paleness of the rising moon and no suburban mall stocked his ripped black leather jacket, torn T-shirt, or battered engineer boots, but […]

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Times Square Babylon Then

November 14, 2021 – 8:08 am

Rent boys. Hookers on the Strip. Flesh peddlers. Martinis at Hojos.

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The Ghosts Of Time Square

November 14, 2021 – 2:54 am

Throughout 70s and 80s the Times Square thrived as a haven for XXX theaters, go-go girls, pimps, whore houses, rent boys, hustlers, thieves, dealers, and lowlifes on the make. Police and city authorities declared the area as DMZ for crime and sex and the 1977 debut of Show World across 42nd Street from the Port […]

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GLITTER GULCH by Jane Dickson

November 14, 2021 – 1:46 am

The Last Days of Babylon July 12, 2013 Throughout 70s and 80s NYPD Police and city authorities had designated Times Square to be DMZ for crime and sex and the neighborhood swiftly became a haven for XXX theaters, go-go girls, pimps, whore houses, rent boys, hustlers, thieves, dealers, and lowlifes on the make. The 1977 […]

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11-11-1918

November 10, 2021 – 10:49 am

Tomorrow I will toast the millions of sad sacrifices of men to imperialism. I also thanked the stars that I’ve never had to fire a shot in anger. The truce between the Axis and Allies was signed at 5am, but ceasefire didn’t take effect, until the 11th second of the 11th minute of the 11th […]

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