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.
Special Saturday Four On The 4th Of July Edition
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*Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s a Special Saturday 4th of July edition
post staring hosts, Emo’s Dairy Mart, The Ice Cream Shack, Lou’s Drive-In
and ...
Ice Cream Dreaming Through the Village
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A wise man once said that only one food goes just as well with pie, coffee,
or tears: ice cream. But you can’t always take wise men at their word; …
Continued
Tompkins Square red-tailed hawk antics
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This nesting season is proving to be a successful one for our Tompkins
Square Park red-tailed hawks. The three fledglings continue to explore the
park, cha...
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...
The Battle for Public Space
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As New York City reopens after lockdown, it is also closing down. During
2020, especially from spring to summer, many New Yorkers who ventured into
the s...
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 ...