Tag Archives: new york

Hurrah Hot Foot

March 24, 2015 – 2:01 pm

Back in the late 70s I was working at Hurrah as security. A good number of the punk disco’s male clientele came from the bridge and tunnel suburbs of New Jersey and Long Island. The gay owner thought that they were cute and these tough boys were easy pickings for the pudgy Texan after these […]

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Oh Winter Woes

January 11, 2015 – 7:21 pm

Freezing temperatures have descended from Canada to the Northeast. The thermometer dropped from the 30s to the 20s and into the teens. Winter was back in New York Last week I dressed accordingly for my departure from the Fort Green Observatory and pulled on a teeshirt, cashmere turtleneck, a wool sweater, and a thick winter […]

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Making An Entrance

December 4, 2014 – 4:57 pm

Area on Hudson was one of New York’s most popular nightclubs in the 80s. Every night hundreds of people waited beyond the velvet ropes for entrance. Admission wasn’t a given. But in this photo the baldish man in the foreground was headed to the bar to order a cognac and coke. It was his drink. […]

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$1.19 Steak At Tad’s

November 18, 2014 – 10:37 pm

I ate my first steak at Tad’s. 1964. Someplace near Penn Station $1.19 I made five times that as a newspaper boy. We were not wage slaves in the age of Tad’s Steakhouse.

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Celebrating The End of Christianity

October 5, 2014 – 6:56 pm

Fireworks on the East River echoed across Brooklyn to Fort Greene. October 5. Fireworks for what? I googled the date for a clue. I found that in 1793 revolutionary France rejected Christianity. Ca va, ouais! Fuck God. Further researched revealed the pyrotechnical display was for the Association of Indians in America. A little of a […]

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