I go for the preachin’

23Jan08

I was supposed to meet my colleague Sonja at Amy Ruth’s, a restaurant off of Lenox on 116th Street in Harlem and apparently about 50 yards off the #2 or #3 train.  Instead, I took the #1 train, thinking the local would get me there just as well, and got off at 116th and Broadway, bordering [...]

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through other eyes

06Apr07

The young man climbed the sticky steps of the Manhattan subway station exiting at 86th Street and Lexington.Recent rain on a summer day had dried too quickly and not cleaned the concrete of half-dried soda, food, spit and slime, and the young man stepped with his head down, moving with the Sunday morning crowd, one [...]

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