Tag: New York City

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3 NL: Hot Lunch 09.07.09

3 naked ladies talk about their view from the stages and laps of the 70′s, 80′s, 90′s and today.

The difference between being “naked” and working bottomless, life before lap dances and the evolution and enforcement (or lack thereof) of the no touching rule.

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Fear Response(s)

Crazy was on my morning commute. This is New York, so that’s not unusual. Doesn’t…

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#911Memory

Fifteen years ago I was on the phone when he said, “Hold on, I think the boiler just exploded,” and put the phone down. After a few moments, “I gotta go. There’s body parts and plane parts all over. I gotta go.” He worked at the Marriott Hotel opposite the World Trade Center and it was early and the story hadn’t hit the news yet.

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Lesson Number One

Previously published: BUST Magazine Spring/Summer 1996 (as Scarlett Fever) He pushes me inside a yellow…

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Dating for Dollars

Previously published: Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks (Soft Skull Press, 2013); Best American Erotica, 1995 (Touchstone Book…

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Killing Time

Originally published as “Lele” in Hos, Hookers, Callgirls and Rentboys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love,…

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Thinking About the Brownsville Rape

These are the facts, so far: On Thursday, January 7,  a 39-year-old man and the…

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Why Avonte?

800,000 children disappear each year; one every 40 seconds. Every kid deserves this kind of effort. But, they don’t get it, there aren’t enough resources. So, why is Avonte Oquendo any more deserving than 799,999 other missing kids?

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pray

  (roosevelt avenue, queens, ny)

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sparrow, with pistachios

(father demo square, west village, ny)

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colorforms

(garment district, nyc)

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hope is a thing with wings

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the road not taken

(spanish harlem, nyc)

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Sunday morning: Bridal Veil

(bridal veil falls, east village, nyc)

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rebecca, tied to a wrought iron fence

(east village, nyc)

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Sunday morning: Lucky 7s

(woodside, queens, ny)

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From the lips of the Cunning Linguist

(east village, nyc)

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Sunday morning: Storm watch

(st. marks place, east village, nyc)

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Open.Up.Your.Heart.

(chinatown, ny)

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Sunday morning : Used

(woodside, queens, ny)

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Sunday morning: Roosevelt Avenue

(jackson heights, queens, ny)

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gas vents

(jackson heights, queens, ny)

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Is this seat taken?

Five years ago, I moved to Jackson Heights, Queens – a neighborhood known for its…

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Eware of Do

(83rd St/37th ave., jackson heights, queens, ny)