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“Enright, I need you to cover the Hamill unveiling!” It was George again. I could almost smell his cheap cigar seeping through my cell phone as I helped a friend scale a striped bass on Canarsie Pier. “Huh?” I replied in my usual sophisticated way. “Pete Hamill, you twit! You wrote a memorial to him back in August!” “Right, I […]
In 1965 I graduated from St. Augustine High School, on Park Place in the Slope, an all-boys slaughter mill run by the Catholic Diocese. There were only 157 “Lancers” in my class and a few years later, the school closed down. We called ourselves Lancers because the school emblem was a knight with a huge lance. I always imagined it […]
As the aircraft eased away from the gate, the dinky panel on the back of the seat in front of me screamed “Tenet!” Last year one of our greatest living directors, Christopher Nolan (a blond Brit of Irish descent and I am a BIG fan), advised his millions of worshipers that they should never see his latest film Tenet unless […]
“Yo, Enright! Wake up! I need a Patty’s Day story.” It was George again. “But, boss, I’m working on this important piece about the new fish section at Food Bazaar!” “Look, your mother was born in Limerick and your twin sister lives there, so toss the fish and get busy.” Damn. As a very dedicated and accomplished consumer of adult […]
Looking back a year ago, most Brooklynites continued to be astonished by Trump’s megalomaniacal corruption. Yet we were grateful the country had avoided a grave crisis because everyone knew our golf-happy President could never manage one. If we could just make it to November and elect “any functioning adult” we told ourselves, everything would be OK. And then it all […]
It was my toughest assignment yet, but George had faith I could pull it off. “Sure, it’ll be dangerous,” he said dismissively. “But you run fast. For an old guy, anyway. Plus, I’ve noticed you’re pretty quick at pressing that ESCape key.” And so off I dove into the Internet to unearth the identity of a man named Q. Since […]
The Election gambits had all failed. 2024 GOP presidential hopefuls were already offering background briefings to reporters on their courageous objections to the President’s insistence on his squatter’s rights to the Oval Office. But the coup-de-grace was finally delivered by a Washington Post exclusive: the Joint Chiefs and a joyous Secret Service detail had developed a discrete extraction method, although […]
All right, let’s start at the beginning. According to the latest realty news about hip, happening Gowanus, those old red brick Roulston buildings under the F train at 9th Street that once housed a huge bakery, coffee grinders, and tons of groceries – followed by cobwebs and then artist lofts – will now be home to lots of office workers. […]
In June 1968 I was working my way through college as a back-office clerk in a brokerage house at 2 Wall Street. It was a deathly dull job. I sat across from Bob Kennedy who supervised reconciling the firm’s trading records for the First National Bank of Boston. In truth, there was only one way a newcomer would be able […]
ALEX TREBEK: Welcome to our candidates, from right to left in more ways than one: President Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden. Our categories are COVID, Russia, Immigration, Wall Street and The Apprentice. As always, remember that all answers should be in the form of a question. Good luck to you both as we begin our first Presidential Candidate […]