Notes from the margins
Bars of New York: Moe’s
Beautiful Dreams Moe’s In Fort Greene closed down last month. I wasn’t aware of it until this morning when I [...]
Shots of Old New York
Reader Chris send these in. From the Selvedge Yard: Incredible shots of the poverty in the Lower East Side in [...]
Snapshots From Jazz City
Reader Chris sent this in: From the superbly named site: If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a lot [...]
The Last Days of Coney Island
Ruby’s Bar and Grill had their last day a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t been to Coney since the [...]
Pilgrims: A Novel
'Pilgrims' is set in 1991 New York. The background is New York at the end of the First Gulf War, with the crack epidemic raging across the city, and the beginning of the East Village's gentrification. The first chapter can be seen in Sensitive Skin Magazine.
Bars of New York (#3): Nancy Whiskey Bar
See first of the series Bars of New York here: Farrell’s Nancy Whiskey Bar is located just off the Canal [...]