Category Archives: NEW YORK

Journal Entry – June 21, 1977 – Park Slope – Brooklyn

February 20, 2021 – 10:46 am

Throughout the night David the super of Berkeley Place played Got to Give It Up (Part 1) by Marvin Gaye over and over again very loud. James rolled into the apartment at 8 and pounded on Hazel’s wall and the ceiling above his room. “Shut that shit off.” He put on a tape of the […]

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BELMONT FIX by Peter Nolan Smith

February 14, 2021 – 9:48 am

Back in the late-70s I bet the horses with a friend from CBGBs. Bill Yusk came from Kentucky to study philosophy at NYU, but the long-haired scholar spent the autumn racing season at OTB and Aqueduct instead of attending classes on Kant and Marx. One afternoon he came over to my railroad apartment with the […]

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Merry Stiffmas

December 24, 2020 – 10:56 am

In December of 2009 the jewelers on 47th Street were counting on a big buying spree to recoup from the Great Recession, however the nation’s zombie economy had exiled the masses from luxury purchases gold and diamonds. Only the rich had money and Richie Boy had more than his share of the upper class. One […]

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Social Distancing a la Covid

October 28, 2020 – 2:47 pm

Phase 2 of the Covid re-opening was announced by Mayor DeBlasio on Monday June 22, 2020 Outdoor dining was to be allowed, although it didn’t happen till July with Governor Cuomo assessing that wth less than 1% infection test levels, New York State had exited from the death grip of April and May. New Yorkers […]

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Meeting Condo Karen in Red Hook

August 5, 2020 – 8:35 am

My young friend Haley and I met in Fort Greene after the passage of the season’s first tropical storm. We had originally planned on cruising down Kent Street into Williamsburg, however the evening sky blaze blue and we opted for a voyage to Red Hook. Larry, a fellow African traveler lived in the low projects […]

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