So said my first mentor in Manhattan — without irony — in 1981 Moving into 78 Washington Place in mid-March 1981 didn’t take long. All I brought: two suitcases stuffed with clothes, briefcase, clock radio, electric typewriter. Luckily Apartment 3C came furnished. More or less. Fitted with a painfully thin mattress and itchy blanket, theContinue reading ““I used to get by on $5 a day but New York City has gotten so expensive””
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A Sort of Mentor
Jeff Reidel was the strangest person I’ve met in NYC, then or now, and almost 40 years later I finally realize how much he taught me Moving into 78 Washington Place, during early spring 1981, didn’t take long. My possessions consisted of two suitcases, briefcase, clock radio, electric typewriter. Apartment 3C came furnished. The metalContinue reading “A Sort of Mentor”
Mark Coleman 