Category Archives: NEW YORK

Blaze and Basketball

October 8, 2016 – 4:59 am

Several years ago I saw this photo on a neighbor’s wall during a party. My sports love is basketball, both watching the games and playing street ball, but I was enthralled by the four young boys ignoring the burning building in favor of a game of two-on-two. Billy was busy with his guests, so I […]

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Pastrami On Nothing

October 1, 2016 – 5:15 pm

This week the Carnegie Deli’s owner announced the closing of the nearly 80 year-old kosher restaurant. Marian Harper Levine’s family has owned the fabled knoshetria since 1971, but a battle with ConEd over an illegal tap on a gas pipe and the long hours have taken a toll on the 60ish operator. “At this stage […]

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A Shotgun and Two Jugs of Moonshine

September 27, 2016 – 10:09 am

On my 64th birthday I bought a shotgun with enough rounds to clear the streets of New York. Things were getting bad. If I didn’t get out of the city now, I was never getting out of here. Thankfully I have two plastic jugs on moonshine. They would help get me close to the Mississippi. […]

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Warfare In America

September 21, 2016 – 2:18 pm

President George W Bush rightfully understood that the attacks on 9/11 were acts of war, but the hijackers were not soldiers from a foreign land. The nineteen ‘terrorists’ had been organized by a shadowy cabal affiliated with Osama Bin Ladin’s Al-Qaada into four separate cells, each with a different target. After the collapse of the […]

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BLACK DOG DEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

September 16, 2016 – 12:33 am

Wall Street collapsed in the fall of 2008 The whys were discussed by countless TV analysts without a single mention of greed and the government equally appeared out of touch with the economic disaster. The catastrophe had no effect on me. I had spent the summer in Palm Beach looking after of a rich friend’s […]

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