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Bring Back Ralph

April 7, 2013 – 6:24 pm

Tomorrow night there will be an Informational Meeting about the community’s concerns in regards to Ralph and the store’s closing at the corner of Lafayette and South Portland Avenue. Monday, April 8, 2013 @ 7:30 pm 61 South Portland Avenue For over 40 years Ralph’s store has been a positive unifying presence in the center […]

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Where’s Ralph?

March 18, 2013 – 9:20 pm

Last Saturday I went down to Ralph’s Meats on Lafayette. The Fort Greene institution had its metal shutters down and a police poster announced that the deli was closed until further notice pursuant to gun and drug charges stemming from a 2012 arrest. I was hoping that the DA might have seen irregularities in the […]

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Not 100%

March 7, 2013 – 7:33 pm

2013 had passed through the summer and September without any serious hurricanes hitting the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. I thought to myself that we had been lucky and that misconception exited from my skull to be carried by the Gulf Stream winds to the birthplace of all storms. Hurricane Sandy struck New York and […]

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Good Sledding

February 9, 2013 – 6:05 pm

TV newscasters warned viewers of Snowstorm Nemo’s danger throughout the end of the week. Families stocked up on provisions and elected officials prepared their states, cities, and town for the worst. After we shut the safe, Richie Boy asked if I wanted to sport-drink with him down in Battery Park City. “My wife’s in Florida, […]

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THE LAUGHTER OF THE MAESTRO by Peter Nolan Smith

February 9, 2013 – 2:27 pm

Last week I was walking home through a snowstorm. Turning the corner toward Fulton I called Cecil Taylor, who lived in the last unrenovated brownstone on that street. We knew each other from back in the 70s. The jazz pianist’s manager James Spicer had been a mutual friend, until the silver-haired impresario ripped off my […]

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