Category Archives: NEW YORK

IN THE ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

April 21, 2014 – 11:21 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it hadn’t been in the winter. The 90+ temperature boiled the asphalt. New Wave had replaced punk and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be burned so […]

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The End Of New York

April 17, 2014 – 4:27 pm

Last week I walked past the Rizzoli bookstore in Milan, which is located in the Grand Galerie next to Duomo Cathedral. Customers have been walking in and out of that address since 1927 and all they sell are books. The same went for the Rizzoli in New York, until the owners of the building on […]

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A Letter from Manhattan President on the Proposed Renovation of the 5th Avenue Library

March 27, 2014 – 10:43 am

I signed a petition against the proposed renovation of New York’s Main Public Library on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. The bourough president responded with an email. Dear Friend: Thank you for contacting me regarding the New York Public Library’s planned renovation of the 42nd Street Library and the potential sale of the Mid-Manhattan branch. I […]

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SOME CHOWDAH, BOBBY by Peter Nolan Smith

March 26, 2014 – 2:42 pm

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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The Meaningless Of Knowledge

March 23, 2014 – 11:51 am

In HG Wells THE TIME MACHINE the hero travels far into the future. The Time Traveler discovered a simplistic communist society. The Eloi’s every want was produced by the subterranean race of Morlocks. Denied the need to work the egalitarian eden bred ennui into the Eloi. There was no thirst for knowledge and the great […]

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