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City Life
The Yiddish Walk Of Fame
For some reason, Second Ave. seems to be more densely populated with history than any other single street in New York, perhaps in the Western Hemisphere. There could be a number of reasons for this, one being that the mythological Second Avenue Subway, that has been “under construction” since my grandfather arrived off the boat, […]
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Micro-Fiction
“The Corner of 5th and Berry”
There were 125,506 new New Yorkers born last year–roughly 3,000 more than the year before. So he had very little reason to be angry that 21 old New Yorkers who’d passed away over a hundred years ago would be completely forgotten. Still, as he got ready to leave his apartment an hour before usual, Mark […]
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Micro-Fiction, Wilson NJ
“Wilson, New Jersey”
The Battle of Wilson had raged on for several decades. It was never much of a competition and at the time of this writing the outcome of the war has been largely decided. The name of the town itself is the most telling sign of one sides defeat, but I’ll get to that in a […]
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