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In Midtown, the Return of a Barfly’s Paradise - NYTimes.com

For Mr. Kelly, 63, who is a salesman for Time Warner Security, the past six months were the first time in many years that he had not been behind a bar. He said he spent much of his free time nagging his once and future landlord [...]

LRB · Benjamin Kunkel: Men in White

…there is, after all, just the one world or, for the individual, the one life. We also know that originality, in realist fiction, comes not only from capturing what’s historically new but also from correlating novelty with persistent inherited ways of acting, thinking and feeling. But the challenge posed [...]

An interesting NY Times article on the tightly knit Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. Among their number, Eddie Antar aka Crazy Eddie - the name familiar to me from trips to LI when his stores were advertised everywhere

For many years, the most famous SY in the world was Eddie Antar, known professionally as Crazy Eddie. [...]