Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer)
Corona, Queens I’m talking about a little village perched under the number 7 train in Queens between Junction Boulevard and 111th St. I’m talking about the Corona Ice King, Spaghetti Park and PS 19. The Corona F. Scott Fitzgerald called the valley of ashes as the Great Gatsby drove past it on his night of [...]
Pioneer Spirit
Salem, Massachusetts August 1995 My first summer away from Queens, I worked in Salem, a city so famous for burning women its whole economy was based on it. I got a job at a recreated seventeenth century village called Pioneer Spirit. It was like a run down Plimoth Plantation, the bastard child where all the [...]
G-TV
New Rochelle, NY October 2000-October 2001 i. Three Pine Trees, October 2000 There are three pine trees that grow in front of 202 Woodland Avenue. Every other house on the block is open. There are front yards more well kept than baseball fields; there are tulips and rose bushes and Italian men who get up [...]