Category Archives: East Village

BIG FOOT by Peter Nolan Smith

October 12, 2011 – 3:19 pm

28 years of my life were spent living in New York’s East Village. I moved there with my hillbilly girlfriend in 1977. We lasted until 1979. The apartment was located at 256 East 10th Street. It had a bathtub in the kitchen. The lack of privacy was not to blame for our break-up. She moved [...]

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Klaus Nomi RIP

August 7, 2011 – 10:36 am

A blizzard struck Manhattan on February 4, 1978. The snowstorm closed the city within the first ours. The streets were impassable for cars. 100 mph winds buried the sidewalks under 5-foot drifts. My hillbilly girlfriend and I were trapped in our East Village apartment for days. The gas stove’s four burners prevented our freezing to [...]

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THE DUKE OF ROCK by Peter Nolan Smith

July 9, 2011 – 12:13 pm

Tompkins Square Park in the East Village had several basketball courts. Full-court games were played next to the handball courts closest to Avenue B. Half-court was located against the fences of the asphalt baseball field on Avenue A. Players were split between neighborhood and hoopsters from the rest of the city. The quality of the [...]

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THE END OF YOUTH by Peter Nolan Smith

May 6, 2011 – 10:59 pm

Subletting your apartment is tricky in New York. The supers are snitches for the landlords, so subleasees have to live with utter discretion in your flat. Swedes are the best, since they are respectful of property unlike Americans. In the early 80s I moved to Paris. Actuel Magazine offered me a job at their nightclub. [...]

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ONE RPM by Peter Nolan Smith

May 1, 2011 – 10:33 am

Published in ELK 2006 February’s blizzards buried New York City with two-foot drifts and people conversed about Global Warming as a distant threat in comparison to Iraq. America was gearing up to war and nothing could stop the process, because the President was acting like a pit bull too stubborn to spit out the bone [...]

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