Currently on twitter, and maybe elsewhere, a video is circulating of a white woman named Amy Cooper. Cooper was walking her dog without a leash in the Ramble in Central Park, when a Black man named Christian Cooper approached her to ask her to leash her dog. At this point, according to Christian Cooper andContinue reading “Amy Cooper in the Ramble”
Tag Archives: New York City
Coney Island and Washington Heights, circa 2015
Sometimes the waves are history, sometimes the waves are money.
Messiah and Me
I hung up on my friend, the Messiah.
New York City, Some Suggestions in the Form of Questions, From Your Departed Son
What if instead of advertisements, digital billboards in Manhattan showed pictures of the people who most recently left the city for good, never to return? An endless scroll of strangers who gave up on the dream of New York City? What then? What if instead of CATS or Lion King running forever on Broadway, itContinue reading “New York City, Some Suggestions in the Form of Questions, From Your Departed Son”
Mordecai Martin, Writer 