Monthly Archives: July 2024

THE TEMPTATION FOR MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 15, 2024 – 8:21 am

Several years ago my good friend Jamie Parker was seeing a go-go girl from the Paris A Go-Go. Ort was skinny and crazy. The ex-con from the Bronx was smart enough not to have Ort as a girlfriend. The twenty-three was better as a geek, but the 52 year-old from the Bronx couldn’t resist the […]

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July 14, 1978 East 60th Street – Journal

July 14, 2024 – 9:49 am

I spent the evening with Kurt Rose friend.After coming back from Paris she has kept her distance, although we spent the last week together. Kirk said she just plays with people’s emotions because she has none. “She just wants you for sex.” He might have a point. “I want the same. Sex.” “I want to […]

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DeKalb Tower Of Doom

July 14, 2024 – 8:52 am

Ten years ago the western view from the Fort Greene Observatory was a low city skyline dominated by the Clock Tower at Atlantic Terminal. During Covid the real estate market was dead, however city and bourough councils granted building permits for a multitude of mega-luxury condo buildings to insure construction jobs and launder money for […]

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Goodbye Subway Inn – 2014

July 14, 2024 – 6:16 am

On July 24, 2014 I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners were evicting the 77-year-old Manhattan bar to erect a towering luxury condo. I first drank in the Subway back in 1977. It was a classic dive bar then and most recently my boss frowned upon […]

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Bastille Day / Palm Beach 2008

July 14, 2024 – 6:08 am

Most Americans have an unfavorable attitude toward the French. This antipathy is based on the abuse most US tourists have suffered from dismissive Paris waiters. Few realize that these garcons are rude to their own countrymen as well as any estrangers. That is not to say that the French don’t subscribe to a haughty self-esteem. […]

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