Where Is Bed-Stuy At?
Gentrification happens so steadily in this corner of Bed-Stuy you hardly notice it day by day. Only when you look [...]
The Health Police
The Health inspectors swoop in on a local Bed-Stuy restaurant – on a friday night, half a dozen cops in tow.
Faces of Recession: Moving Times
The above picture was taken the other morning. Some guy was going through the mess of stuff, putting it into [...]
Snapshots: Winter in New York
Coming home . . . Subway platform freezing, even with a winter jacket and gloves. Black Dude playing ‘Now’s The [...]
Notes From Around the Hood
Even with the recession, gentrification continues apace. Maybe because of the recession, gentrification continues apace. The condos looming over virtually [...]
Back home . . . to the snow
Got in to the city last night around eleven pm, after the train ride from Newark International. From the air, [...]
NYC Marathon – Take Two
Like last year, I watched it in front of the Lafayette Garden projects on Lafayette Ave. Last year, there was [...]
All the world and my neighborhood
At eleven am last week my neighbors and I gathered for a group shot on a stoop in the sun [...]
The Violinist
Notes from the G train . . . Couple with two kids. Dominicans, Puerto Ricans – and very fat, not [...]
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.
Last Stand of the New York Times (delivery service, that is)
I canceled our New York Times subscription this weekend. Not because we.ve turned away from print media – that we [...]