Happy Halloween Haiku
Knife pierces the flesh.
The gourd never had a chance.
He smiles, and then dies.
A piece of the rock
More and more to me, the 6th Street Embankment is becoming that symbolic line in the sand in the battle to save our city’s soul. I ain’t kiddin’. The Embankment Preservation Coalition has been fighting to save this hulking vestige of our broad shouldered, sweaty, smelly, toxic past for more than a decade. This week [...]
Chillin’ at the final resting spot
Like a lot of the kids who grew up in my Downtown neighborhood, my main connection to the old Jersey City Cemetery was the sloping hill in the rear, where we would hang out on summer nights and drink, smoke and do whatever else those kids back in the 70’s were doing. We knew it [...]
Free the Loew’s theatre
The first date I ever had was at the Loew’s theatre in Journal Square. I was 14. We sat in the balcony. Me, and my boys. She, and her girls. Separated by a couple of rows, I threw Milk Duds at her to get her attention. She took my cue and we met about ten [...]
Into the fire
The Donnelly clan was forced to sit through almost an entire city council meeting before they watched David take the oath of office as the new Ward B councilman. (Talk about having to pay your dues!) Although the vote was a fait accompli, Donnelly got a “yes” vote from Downtown Councilman Steve Fulop, who a [...]
Paging Mr. Donnelly
David Donnelly is a smart guy. Not one to count the political chickens before they hatch, the man who would be Ward B councilman passed on an opportunity to share his thoughts with a reporter about the impending vote tomorrow that will put him in the seat vacated by felon-to-be Phil Kenny, who pleaded guilty [...]
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