Eddie Palmieri in the Bronx
First-timers expect to see Arthur Murray standing in a striped bow-tie, but all they see is me in my 501s and a black turtleneck, and a lot shorter than Mr. Murray, which is why I started to teach dance in the first place. I didn’t have much going for me except a strong center of […]
Paschal Lamb
and maybe it will be a promised land when values can run wild
and trump the Trumps everywhere
Sisters
For years I didn’t like either one of you, felt I was returning the favor— the baby, an annoyance, an inconvenience, the one you dragged on the subway to go ice-skating, left me holding the railing. In a one-bedroom apartment, slept on a twin bed in the corner of the room, got up early on […]
Was John’s Bargain Store a Model for WalMart?
The John’s Bargain Store I remember was located at the Soundview Avenue stop of the “IRT” line. Soundview Avenue was an “elevated” subway stop. Rather than climbing up the stairs from an underground station, I climbed downstairs from a platform through the turnstile leading outside to the street. The newsstand was at the corner with […]