Holiday Shopping in SoHo
“Fuck you, pay me!” — Henry Hill describing Paulie’s attitude in Goodfellas. The new shopping plan from our dear leaders in the DOT where widening the sidewalks to accommodate shoppers (buying from African immigrant sidewalk “shopkeepers”) is what we deserve on Canal Street, right? Well, at least, that’s what we’re going to get. As it…
Mental Health in New York
“Insanity is contagious.” ― Joseph Heller Having worked as a therapist in a NY State psychiatric hospital decades ago and treated mentally ill clients whose psychopathology ranged from schizophrenia to drug addiction, I was not please that a profit-making organization was planning on taking away my ticket to ride. After all, I’d spent years in classes,…
DOT Redux
“You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus.” — Tom Wolfe Twenty years ago I was a member of Community Board Two. I was assigned to Traffic & Transportation committee. The DOT sent a few of Bloomberg’s Harvard boys to the meeting to describe the changes that would be implemented in SoHo, the…
The Pit and the Pendulum — Part Deux
‘It wasn’t about me.” — Donald Trump Okay, those of us who now think twice about leaving the house — not because there really are roving bands of criminals taking over Manhattan, or even SoHo (they’re not) — and not about drivers on the way to New Jersey who exit their cars to attack pedestrians…
Truth & Justice in the Hamptons
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”― Honore de Balzac For those of you who’ve not had the pleasure of doing time, rejoice! I’m going to save you a trip. I pissed off DA Thomas Spota (which ultimately got him a prison sentence) with the collaboration and…
A Day In the Life
“He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But, he who loses courage loses all.” – Miguel de Cervantes An attorney sent me an article in the New Yorker written by a journalist who had written about prison, C.O.s, inmates and the vicissitudes of life for those behind bars. She…
Big Crime
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell For those of you who are musically inclined, as I am, having been a musician most of my life — performing in New York, Amsterdam, Florence, Rome, Puerto Rico,…
Citibike to Seniors & Disabled: Get Lost
“If you can’t beat them, leave town. The Downtown corruption makes Trump and his minions look like choirboys.” – Anonymous In their zeal to provide routes for bikers, which unfortunately started in SoHo and was approved by Community Board #2 for SoHo and the politicians that have poorly served lower Manhattan (with the exception of…
Nothing Works — Part Deux
“Never give up, never, never, never give up.” — Winston Churchill Well, I have been known for my constant bitching about the fact that many of us downtown especially in SoHo have had no access to city agencies that actually do anything. HPD, also known as Housing, Preservation, and Development is an agency charged with…
The Pit and the Pendulum
“Forgive your enemies but always remember their names.” — John F. Kennedy You know, what is most disconcerting about the anxiety-riddled time that we live in, is the fact that when abusive, heavy-handed stupid people try to impose their will on the populace they believe they can force their point of view on us all…
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