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Tag Archives: New York
September 11, 2001: In Memory of Michael J. Pascuma, Jr.
The 2,996 project is an ongoing collective tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I signed up during its first year in 2006. You were assigned a name, at random, of one of the people … Continue reading
103 Years Ago Today: Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates
There’s this really cool site/project called NYC 1920 – a day by day archive of events in NYC exactly 100 years ago. It’s created and edited by a friend of mine, author/scholar/literature professor Jonathan Goldman, whom I met through the … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: The sinister house and door
Two weeks after Jeffrey Epstein “committed suicide” (uh-huh), I was on the Upper East Side with my nephew Cashel and three of his friends. We were going to see the Play It Loud exhibit at the Met. It was a … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Coffee Shop
It was a sad damn day when this joint closed. I loved it there. My first “time out” in New York I met up with a friend there for brunch … and everything was so fresh and new, it remains … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: XXX
Glimpsed through a door on my way to the NYFCC awards dinner. I peeked inside and it looked like a parking garage, with a ramp leading downwards into the bowels of the earth. But something else was going on down … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Citrus
I used to work in Chelsea Market. On the first floor is the market itself, an enclosed warren of shops and food and produce and sushi and any other food you would want to get. I worked in an office … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Drugs
I remember this day. I was walking to the theatre on 3rd Avenue to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – projected large, the way it was meant to be projected – and it was a grey day, with … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Old New York sign
Take pictures of them while they’re still around.
Photo of the Day: Rain
New York in the rain can be annoying. But it can also be beautiful and poetic and sad. Or, it can be glamorous. This was snapped from out of a cab window. I miss New York. Going down soon.
Photo of the Day: Roseland
One day, randomly, I was in the vicinity of Roseland Ballroom on 52nd Street. I was actually on 53rd Street, behind the ballroom, its stage doors and fire escapes on display. It was just a long blank wall, with cracked … Continue reading