Category Archives: New York Moments

The Debka Made ‘Em Do It

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Tony

Driving down the West Side Highway heading back to Brooklyn on a sunny Saturday morning, I’m suddenly flagged down by one of dozens of policemen, and pulled over. I know what this is about. Earlier, NPR had broadcast that New … Continue reading →

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Dead at the Apollo

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Tony

If I had the time, I’d build James Brown a proper online shrine, with “Night Train” welcoming you and Tom Tom Club’s exquisite JB tribute song “Pleasures of Love” bidding him farewell… (“What you gonna do when you get out … Continue reading →

Posted in New York Moments, The Whole World's Africa | 10 Comments

In Nuevo Jork, Jew Doesn’t Always Mean Jew

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Tony

Long live Juan Epstein, sitcom land’s archetypal Jewish Latino! “Shut up! Shut up!” The petulant and rather camp fellow with the long hair (whose tone suggested to me that he may be an off-duty drag queen) and whose superior attitude … Continue reading →

Posted in A Wondering Jew, New York Moments | 10 Comments

The Price of Solidarity

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Tony

Driving my kids to school through the gridlocked streets approaching the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning, past picket lines of dreadlocked transit workers chanting “No contract, no work!” — their action paralyzing a mass transit system that ferries 7 million people … Continue reading →

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East Village Chimurenga

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Tony

Sunday August 28 St. Mark’s Place is packed solid with traffic, hardly moving, which is all the more frustrating since we’ve been driving for three hours, hungry, from upstate New York, where Gabe had been at a swords-and-sorcery day camp. … Continue reading →

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