Stories tagged mrbellersneighborhood

Though I'm NEVER Drunk, I'm ALWAYS Disorderly (memoir)

by Rick Rofihe, Jul 02, 2010
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1987. Recently, I told a teenager who was smoking a cigarette in an elevator that he should put it out. “You a cop?” he asked.

The Bowery Scene (Memoir, 1981; edited by Charlotte Curtis)

by Rick Rofihe, Jul 10, 2010
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It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...