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Among the authors whose books I have found in free book kiosks, on street corners, and in front of apartment buildings are Harper Lee, Richa...

While going through some old manila file folders, I found a handwritten draft of a letter-to-the-editor written on canary yellow paper and d...

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, th...

While listening to the BBC News on New York's public radio station WNYC-AM 820, I heard that the TV actress June Lockhart ( Lassie and ...

I recently found a letter I forgot I wrote to the editor of the now-defunct New York Native , a weekly gay newspaper. At the time the lette...

I  recently found Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2019) in a Little Free Library kiosk in Harlem. This his...

About four or five years before I was an employee at Mount Morris Baths in Harlem, I went there to interview the owner Walter Fitzer and his...