Tag: uws encounters

Shopping at Fairway Market last night, I saw an unmistakable half-face. Like everyone else, Richard Kind had a mask on in the produce aisle, but there was

Can’t get flour or yeast/Or even toilet tissue/But shortages of goods/Are not my issue

I’d never heard of John Prine until CNN reported he died of COVID-19. I listened to his work on youtube last evening. His songs are wonderful. So many good people

I was working from home, and a little bird visited my windowsill for the first time, and chirped something for a few minutes. It was hopping

Two neighbors I knew offered to shop for me and a third I didn’t know. I was reassured of the universal basic goodness of human

It’s eerie how quiet it is out there; even the guy who usually screams at the traffic on 79th & Broadway was doing more pacing than screaming.

If you are seized by a desire to help in this extraordinary time, it does not require a medical degree. An UWS man discovered

I am 35 years sober one day at a time. I recently offered to take a friend new to sobriety to some west side AA meetings I wanted to try. As a beginner, I had been fragile.

Back in the 70's, on a beautiful summer day, I lived on West 106 street. Stevie Wonder was a guest of a youth summer

Decades ago, my sister Joany and I were looking for an affordable UWS apartment. The realtor took us to a building on West End Avenue in the 70s. The minute

Around 2000, as a number of us waited on a long, slow-moving line at the Planetarium Post Office on West 83rd, an older woman broke the silence.

A January run along the Hudson had left me freezing and wanting pasta. I set out for Gennaro’s near 92nd where I walked into

He was big all right, and plenty mean looking. So, when he parked himself in front of the crowd watching the prize fight

On a recent evening after Christmas, my husband and I were walking home along Broadway to our corner at 64th when we crossed paths with

They heard a train rumble underground near a grate and dropped to their stomachs over the grate, staring down.

A friend and I were walking through Theodore Roosevelt Park on the path from Columbus to CPW, and as we passed the dog park

In the distance I saw two people walking toward me. All I could see were these two identical

Years ago, I lived on the UWS and there was an exclusive men's clothing store — can’t remember the name

On Friday, 11/29, I went to the Beacon Theater to try and snag some last-minute Bob Dylan tickets.

Every now and then I think of the old H&H Bagel shop across the street from Zabar's (RIP). Fondest memory?