Category Archives: Bet On Crazy

BET ON CRAZY / CHINESE FOOD by Peter Nolan Smith

February 13, 2012 – 5:24 pm

Last year after Valentine’s Day business on 47th Street got really slow. The rich went on family holidays to St. Barts and Palm Beach. Oil bills taxed New Yorkers to the bone and purchasing a diamond was the last thing on most people’s mind in the dead of winter. Some days no one entered the [...]

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BETTING THE OTHER WAY / Bet On Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

February 5, 2012 – 12:13 pm


Betting on the Superbowl has been an American tradition since the first game in 1967. Betting was another part of that tradition and for two weeks before the Big Game the diamond dealers and jewelers had been wagering bets on pools, the point spread, the over-under, which teams scores first, and the MVP. Some claimed [...]

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BAD INFLUENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2011 – 6:50 am

Three years ago Enos Washing had overdosed from a long night of too much of everything. The Rockaway Beach native had been surprised to wake up alive and submitted himself to cold-turkey from his excesses, for his weary heart had been knocking on death’s door like a V8 engine without any lubrication. Enos had deleted [...]

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MAKE NICE / Bet On Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

November 4, 2011 – 5:07 am

 The Diamond District on West 47th Street was a closed community. Family histories have been intertwined by marriages and business deals. The smiling faces on the surface hid the turbid conflict behind the scenes. My boss, Manny, and his son, Richie Boy, followed the Corleone tradition of never laundering family troubles in public. Basing [...]

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More Than 10% Divine

October 28, 2011 – 12:16 pm

right before I left for Luxembourg, my co-worker Deisy announced that she had no gay friends. She was a fundamentalist and a firm believer in the Bible. Hell was reserved for sinners and God has a special oven for the worshipers of man-sex for her church. Her church was not Catholic in origins. “Deisy, you [...]

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