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Guilty as not Charged

May 18, 2009 – 11:12 am

My boss on 47th Street is more than twenty years my senior. He comes from Brownsville. Mike Tyson lived there for 6 years. It was a tough neighborhood and even tougher in Manny’s youth. “We had to fight everyone.” Manny is 100% old school and one day he caught me writing a letter. “What are […]

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GREEN LANTERN GEMS

December 2, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Earth has been traveling through the universe for billions of years. During these eternal eons the planet has been subjected to radiation from a myriad of sources, although none greater than the Earth itself and this intense contact with radioactivity is what turns diamonds into the second rarest of colors “green’. The process actually alters […]

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BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith / The 4Cs Color

July 30, 2008 – 8:53 am

The last week of February I was hurrying down the sidewalk on West 47th Street. My watch read 9:35. I was late for the third time this week and it was only Wednesday. Lenny the bum was standing in front of Berger’s Deli. His lightly-clothed body was steaming in the sub-zero temperature. Fat people generate […]

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BET ON CRAZY By Peter Nolan Smith / Bad Press

July 30, 2008 – 8:48 am

Valentine’s Day was a big holiday in Manhattan’s Diamond District. Manny loaded our window with gold hearts and diamond stud earrings. Loyal customers flocked to the Randolphs across the aisle from our display cases and we handled all the walk-ins i.e. jewellry shoppers without a destination. “Can I help you something?” I asked a young […]

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BET ON CRAZY 2 / SETTING UP

July 9, 2008 – 2:45 pm

The next morning I woke at 8am. Manny’s exchange opened at 9:30. I bathed in my kitchen, dressed in a midnight-blue pin-striped suit, threw on my leather coat, and walked over to Velseka’s Coffee Shop on 2nd Avenue. A light snow was falling without sticking to the sidewalk. I had $5 left from the $20 […]

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