A My Private Coney project Flash non-fiction, brief moments and old memories of a city and mother's emotional and physical real estate disappearing at the speed of heartbreak.
MY PRIVATE CONEY presents IT WAS HER NEW YORK, the short stories that accompany the work-in-progress video and photo collection of the same name (myprivateconey.com - media link - IT WAS HER NEW YORK). The stories and the media explore the tender rubble that holds both my mother, Florence's and New York's soul as one disappears into old age and the other into gentrification. All are real observations and/or experiences with very little tall-tale telling.
Except when it makes the story better.
Please visit myprivateconey.com for additional information and sample works.
Rare Swainson's hawk turns up in Brooklyn
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There's been a rare and exciting visitor to the city these last few weeks:
an immature Swainson's Hawk. This is a bird found in the western United
States...
On Course to Return a Spinning Cube to Astor Place
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For most of its existence, pedestrians were able to freely and joyfully
spin the black monolith known as the “Alamo” (more commonly referred to as
the Asto...
Lunch At First Bite - This Week @: EatandEvolve
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*EatandEvolve is a unique restaurant located in Junction City. I realized
the other day that I haven’t been there in a couple years, so I decided to
fix...
Feral City
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My new book, *Feral City*, hits the shelves October 4, 2022. You can pre-order
it today from your local bookshop and wherever books are sold. Thank you!
*...
Untitled Pandemic Series No. 5
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Things got dark. Painting No. 2 in Series of 6Approx. 7" x 8" Mixed media
on paper Available here. Painting No. 2 in Series of 6Approx. 7" x 8" Mixed
medi...
MURALS AND GRAFFITI - PART 1 -
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Murals by local artists, RIP Murals, Street Art, Graffiti, Vintage and New
Painted Ads, Giant Billboards: everything painted you could see in the
streets o...
Glorious
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Margaret, the immaturity shown by Donald Trump today was surpassed only by
the cluelessness shown by Ted Cruz. One is gone and soon to be forgotten
while t...
Notes on ‘Swindler & Son 2’
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This book came to me as if in a dream, playing itself out in front of me,
bit by bit, each day at the keyboard. Not so much something I wanted to say
as ...