Tag Archives: brooklyn

Bike Crash # 2 – 2020

August 13, 2020 – 10:53 pm

The other night I rode the A Train to Brooklyn. I got off at Hoyt-Schmeerhorn. The next C train was 15 minutes away and I decided to bike the short distance to Myrtle Avenue. I climbed the stairs to ground level and set out home. Unfortunately a car swerved into the bike lane to alter […]

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Step # 1 Normalization From Covid 19

April 27, 2020 – 2:09 pm

This early evening a soaking rain has cleared the streets of Brooklyn. Bad weather keeps people in their houses and apartments. New York has been locked down since 8pm March 16 per order of the governor and mayor. That evening I closed the 169 Bar with my comrades and since then I have been isolation. […]

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Exhaustion

April 8, 2020 – 6:51 am

From 2010 to 2011 I worked at a metal shop. We constructed objects from steel, zinc, tin, and bronze. Everything was heavy and the work was hard, but better than being broke, since my old spot on 47th Street was gone. No one was buying diamonds these days and even my old friend and boss […]

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Doctor Me

September 24, 2019 – 8:15 pm

Hypochondria struck me at an early age after reading a Maryknoll missionary magazine showing a photo of a young boy wearing a metal contraption to walk. I feared that an unnamed ailment would take away by legs and I’d be a tin boy. Every small cut was examined for gangrene and each fever was a […]

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SMASHING KNIVES by Peter Nolan Smith

August 31, 2019 – 7:44 pm

In the Greater Depression the employment opportunities for a man my age were limited in New York City. A younger man would perform the job for a third of the wage, however my absolute willingness to work overcame most obstacles and for the past two months I have labored on the black market at a […]

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