Tag: essays

It takes 60 steps to reach my fifth-floor walkup and during that minute-long exercise routine, I pass by every apartment in my building.

Here, in this magical upside-down place, even birds that can fly—choose to walk instead.

The only bad thing about a raspberry is remembering how to spell it. Everything else about the berry is perfect.

It was Thursday, March 12 -- two years ago today -- and the day had started out so—normal.

I dribble across midcourt with the game clock flashing 10 seconds left and our team down by one. I fake left, but go right

I remember the day heroin came to the Amsterdam Houses. It was 1964 and I was 15 years old.

I grew up in the Amsterdam Houses in Manhattan, NYC. They were and are low-income NYCHA housing built in 1947

“Thank YOU and have a great day!” I tell the good driver as I descend the deep stairs of the MTA Express bus, knowing that without the ride from this behemoth vehicle and reliable person

I had not planned to spend the ten days between Christmas and New Year's isolating in my apartment on West 85th Street. I

By Elaina Plott The Upper West Side was his before it was mine. He took me there for the first time when I was 18, to