June 2010
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hot: the antidote
Tucked among the heat mirages on the Saharan reaches of lower Newark Ave is a place you will shortly want to visit: Nha Trang Market, between Second and First streets, south side of the avenue. The market is a dim and pungent collection of a great many things southeast Asian, efficiently racked to the ceiling and along the narrow aisles, expansive in both breadth (the spice section) and depth (a...
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jc art walking tour / stop #25
latitude: 40.735566
longitude: -74.046017
On the north side of the American Self-Storage building, just past stop # 24. Best viewed from across the street. Next to the fire escape, the remains of some liquid arc across the brick, some thirty feet off the ground. A well-deployed mouthful of chaw? Someone tripping with a cup of coffee? Protagonist long gone; stain lingers (as stains will),...
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street style paper doll: Jerramiah Healy and the...
The times I have seen Jerramiah Healy around town he has been wearing this golf shirt. Black, with white trim at collar and sleeves. Once was in the spring, when he pulled over on Central, just south of the reservoir, and dashed into the deli there. Once was in the dead of winter, the night before New Year’s Eve at Casa Dante on Newark Ave, where he was tucking into a large plate of...
