As I watch Manhattan’s continuing transformation into an overpriced mall, I find it difficult to believe that change is by nature positive. I walk around ranting and pointing—that was St Vincent’s Hospital! That was the Jefferson Market and so was Sammy’s Noodle Shop! That’s where my favorite movie theater used to be. I’m told I should get ov [...]
Monthly archives for May, 2012
Coney Island: A Million Different Pas...
As I watch Manhattan’s continuing transformation into an overpriced mall, I find it difficult to believe that change is by nature positive. I walk around ranting and pointing—that was St Vincent’s Hospital! That was the Jefferson Market and so was Sammy’s Noodle Shop! That’s where my favorite movie theater used to be. I’m told I should get ov [...]
Isidore Block and Other Strangers
Millions of people live in New York City. Millions of people but you don’t see them all. Hundreds of neighbors in your two block radius but even how many of them would you recognize out of context? We remember the people with whom we interact, like the old lady who makes us coffee every morning on our way to work, and we don’t interact with s [...]
