Category Archives: NEW YORK

Staten Island Fog – Journal May 9, 1978

January 31, 2025 – 1:25 am

From May 9, 1978 Journal On the Staten Island Ferry The first time I’ve left Manhattan Since going to Boston On Christmas___ 11 AM I can’t see anything of Manhattan The fog furls over the ferry’s wake Across the Inner Harbor The rank smell of the sea Beyond the Verrazano Bridge. The gray water darker […]

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Friends in Our City

January 9, 2025 – 11:14 am

After COVID struck, the city closed everything. Mazin and I wandered the shorelines of Manhattan and Brooklyn drinking wine in the desolation of uncertainty. Counting the stars. It was our city. One night we sat at a Williamsburg park on the East River. Across lived his sister and he called her to illuminate the Christmas […]

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NEW YEAR’S EVE ALL RIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2024 – 1:10 pm

In the Spring of 1969 my teenage sweetheart’s mother was dating a Chilean pianist. One Friday evening the two adults left the brunette cheerleader in charge of the house and after she put her younger brother to bed, I came over for a study session. An hour at the books was our passport to a […]

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48D Long Freedom

December 11, 2024 – 7:31 am

From 2016 I loved the old Times Square. Now it’s a tourist trap waiting the rebirth of a generation of vicious Fagins, the criminal kingpin of Charles Dickens’ OLIVER TWIST. I have more respect more respect for the ruthless thieves of the 70s than the XXXXL tourists stuffing their faces with fast food on the […]

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BET ON CRAZY / Naked Women

December 10, 2024 – 1:22 pm

Published 2008 Rough diamonds are predominantly mined from volcanic vents in Africa, Australia, Russia, and Canada. After that process separated into parcels for the London sight-holders, who have the stones cut in Antwerp, Israel, or India. The finished products are divvied out to various diamond brokers and then brought over to various diamond markets across […]

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