Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Thursday, November 13, 2025

ELECTION NIGHT’S GLIMPSE OF WHAT THE PEOPLE REALLY WANT

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by Raymond Nat Turner “ Universal suffrage is thus the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

TODO BUENO?

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by Andrés Castro from Macmillan New York City continues to grow and grate on me.      Being born at Coney Island Hospital the summer of ’58,...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

MAMDANI

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by  Indran Amirthanayagam Boffed, bumped, beaten,  bled and bleeding I have  lurched everywhere  seeking to straighten up,  to get on with t...
Sunday, June 09, 2024

PARTNERS IN GENOCIDE

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by Steve Bloom New York City, Israel Day Parade, June 2 2024, I see the flag, take a photo, tell myself I will write a poem titled: “Partner...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

LET GO THE HEAVY HANDS OF HATRED

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by Eliot Katz The Massacre of the Innocents by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael ca. 1512–13, The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Hamas has ta...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

NOT TODAY, PINKO!

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by Steven Kent "Rightwingers say 'pink-haired liberals' are killing New York pizza" — The Guardian ,  29 June 2023 A plot,...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

ELEGY FOR LOST CITY

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by Katie Tian Two 13-year-old boys are under arrest for allegedly setting an 89-year-old woman on fire in Brooklyn. The victim said the pair...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

STOLEN CHILDHOOD

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by George Salamon “114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives.” —Written by Eliza Shapiro; Photographs ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

A COLLECTION OF SHORTS ON CHURROS

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by Jen Schneider Handcuffed for Selling Churros: Inside the World of Illegal Food Vendors — The New York Times , November 12, 2019 S...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

BROKEN WINDOWS

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by Alan Walowitz The New York City police officer whose chokehold led to Eric Garner’s death in 2014 was fired from the Police Departme...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

A DRAFT OF SANTAS

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by Leslie Prosterman NYC SantaCon last Saturday afternoon bands of roving santas started appearing near Washington Square Park, s...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

THE GREAT FIRE

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by Rick Mullin Trinity Church steeple in silhouette on 9-11-2001. Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan At lunch, they ask me where...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

AN INVISIBLE COMMUNITY OF LOVE AND CARING

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by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard At her regular spot on East 46th Street and Park Avenue, Nakesha Williams could often be seen surrounded b...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

HERE, HOLDING ON

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by Carolyn Martin Photo by Rob Sheridan : Ground Zero, New York City. October, 2001.                                                ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

SUNSET COMMENT ON THE NEW YEAR

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by George Held 29 December 2016 It’s one of those glorious sunsets, Like an ad for New Mexico, that makes You feel blessed to ...
Saturday, November 02, 2013

THE WILD WEST COMES EAST ON CITIBANK BIKES

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A New York City Mayor’s Legacy   by Linda Lerner Photo by Linda Lerner I jump out of the way as they come speeding out of the virtua...