Category Archives: NEW YORK

Black Silver Screen Of Yesteryear

December 16, 2019 – 2:32 pm

Thomas Beller recently wrote in the New Yorker about the closing of the Lincoln Theater Cinemas. “There is something disturbing about a blank movie marquee. It’s like a face without a mouth. I don’t mean the brief transitory blankness when the lettering for one movie is taken down at the end of its run to […]

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Woe Are The Knicks

December 12, 2019 – 6:57 pm

Bob Dylan once sang, “There is nothing more useless than a rich man’s son.” These words have been proven innumerable times, but in sports one scion of the sperm bank lottery has ruled the # 1 worst sports owner in the USA for most of this century. James ‘fucking’ Dolan of the New York Knicks. […]

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FRENCH AIR STEWARDESSES by Peter Nolan Smith

December 6, 2019 – 9:37 am

Air stewardesses were sex symbols in the 60s and 70s. These elegant airborne beauties flew from city to city and country to country with a smile. The uniforms were designed by fashion houses. Air travel was cool and the stewardesses were sexy in a good way. The sexiest air hostesses were from foreign countries with […]

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Working the Plaza

November 30, 2019 – 9:36 am

In the winter of 2009 I left the Oak Bar to smoke a cigarette on 59th Street. I only smoke when I drink. One cigarette a day is enough. The wind off the park was smelled of the fallen snow. Only a few pedestrians braved the cold. An Asiatic woman with long hair approached me. […]

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SHAWALLAGAH PA. BET ON CRAZY

November 25, 2019 – 9:54 am

Thanksgiving Day plus One started the Holiday season on West 47th Street. Accordingly the majority of the ground floor exchanges extend their operating hours and stay open every ding-dong day until Christmas. Throughout the week regular customers and natives to New York flock here, but on the weekends they are replaced by busloads of tourists […]

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