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Yankees of Their Profession

Written by Adam Heimlich on May 7, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Yankees of Their Profession It’s obvious that the threat of having to stay 20 minutes after school doesn’t scare the teachers picketing outside of Park Slope’s Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research. This group showed up a half-hour before work just to let it be known that a year and a half without a
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NL; Panino’teca 275

Written by Adam Heimlich on April 30, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

We emerged from the W. 4th St. station into a collegiate street party. Packs of upper-middle-class white kids wearing Mardi Gras beads were roving drunkenly through the fading daylight. One of a group of boys in baseball caps loudly slurred his appraisal of a female in our party. Half a block later, a herd of
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Albert Ellis, Feisty Shrink

Written by Adam Heimlich on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The last of the canonical psychotherapists is Albert Ellis. You learned his name if you took Psych 101. Born in 1913, he’s outlived all his colleagues on the intro-class syllabus: Rogers, Maslow, Adler, Erikson, Horney, etc. He hasn’t even retired. New York’s Albert Ellis Institute is located in an elegant Upper East Side townhouse, at
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Q&A with J-Live

Written by Adam Heimlich on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

J-Live had a couple of hit singles ("Hush the Crowd," "Braggin’ Writes") in the mid-90s. His long-delayed first full-length, The Best Part (Seven Heads), is the most engrossing underground rap album since MF Doom’s Operation: Doomsday. J-Live has made believers out of many a naysaying crowd with his mic and DJ skills (he can cut
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Pret Crosses the Atlantic

Written by Adam Heimlich on April 9, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Midtown Manhattan’s lunch scene is America’s greatest arena of food competition–a cutthroat little industry where everyone is always either sinking or swimming, and the parameters change every day. No one on Wall Street has as much immediate pressure to get his product, marketing and service just right. A super-salad-bar-cafeteria-deli can gear its operation to provide
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Lil’ Frankie’s Pizza

Written by Adam Heimlich on March 26, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Not too long ago I met a couple who’d recently moved to New York. They said they were surprised to be having trouble finding decent pizza. It took me a while to figure out what in the world they were talking about, because this couple was not from Italy. They were from California. Interrogation revealed
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Afghan Kebab House II

Written by Adam Heimlich on March 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Most New York food writers, myself included, wrote about eating Middle Eastern or Central Asian food in the aftermath of 9/11. This is not another one of those pieces. This is simply a review of a good little restaurant on the Upper East Side–a find in the midst of one of the densest restaurant regions
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Brooklyn Foraging Tips

Written by Adam Heimlich on February 26, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I recently moved to Brooklyn. Some of my new neighbors are old friends, but few of them previously resided in Manhattan for as many years as I did. It demands a peculiar set of adjustments, this change. One sees strange things out here, such as the sky. Bars with empty seats on a Saturday night.
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Sripraphai’s Incomparable Thai

Written by Adam Heimlich on February 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Take the Queens-bound 7 to 61st St.-Woodside. It’s a rush-hour express stop, so the ride is only about 10 minutes from Grand Central. Walk down to the street and continue directly under the train, in the same direction it was going. You’ll go through an underpass with civic-pride murals painted on the walls. Four blocks
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2002, Hiphop’s Year One: Nas, Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang Clan Face 9/11

Written by Adam Heimlich on January 29, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

9/11/01 would have been ground-zero day for New York hiphop even if the Towers and everyone in them had survived. That’s because that same Tuesday saw the release of Jay-Z’s sixth album, The Blueprint. Though the self-described former drug boss of Brooklyn’s Marcy Houses had dominated rap for years, he’d barely altered his style since
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