Category Archives: NEW YORK

SOME CHOWDAH, BOBBY by Peter Nolan Smith

April 23, 2025 – 4:42 am

Last holiday season Richie Boy had hired me to help with sales and schlepping merchandise between dealers and jewelers. Hlove and I worked together to make sales, but business on 47th Street was murder. There was no foot traffic and my old customers hated the street and all the hawkers shilling to buy gold. “Back […]

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Skinny Skyscraper In The Wind

April 8, 2025 – 11:02 am

Today the UK Sun touted the quadraplex $100 million penthouse towering 1428 feet into the Manhattan skyline two blocks away from Central Park on Billionaire’s Row. Marble adorns the bathroom and floor of One Above All Else. Actually Freedom Fries Tower downtown is taller than the Steinway Tower, so the four-story apartment should be renamed […]

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Walk Like A Woman

April 7, 2025 – 11:07 am

WALK LIKE A WOMAN By Peter Nolan Smith Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. Sylvia Rivera MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2023 Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT was a funny movie about two musicians hiding from the Mob in an all-women band and I didn’t think much about men dressing as woman, until my […]

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October 18, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

March 25, 2025 – 4:06 am

Alice’s trip to West Virginia was five days long. She returned Tuesday morning fifteen minutes before I went to work as a waiter in the Ventron Executive Dining Room off Wall Street. Somehow she looked different and acted the same. It took a full day until Alice became the love of my life again, although […]

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Snow in Spring NYC 2010

March 22, 2025 – 10:58 am

JoJo, the security guard at the diamond exchange, was a betting man. He gambled the left-overs from his monthly NYPD pension on baseball, basketball, and football. His losses outweighed his wins. JoJo also wagered on odd parlays and on March 1st in 2010 I said that there wouldn’t be another snowstorm. Two days ago the […]

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