See The Light

(South Street – Photos by Joe) The five of us all gazed at a blue neon glow that was brightest by the Fish Market Restaurant on South Street. I shuffled my feet, blinked, squinted, and pretended to look real hard. Don’t know if the shuffling of the feet worked, but I did my best not to [...]

Keeping Secrets

(South Street across from The Paris Cafe – Photos by Joe) “Where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.”                       Luke 12:34   – Believe me, I don’t give away all of NYC’s secrets. Especially those associated with that block of small brick buildings on South St. between Beekman St. and Peck Slip. At one end are vacant [...]

Milk Toast

(Wavertree sailing ship/South Street Seaport, NYC - Photos by Joe) At the South Street Seaport to meet my friends, I was aware a tall white guy had tailed me since I came out of the Fulton Street subway station that was a four block walk. To be certain, I moved away from the sparse, early evening crowd [...]

To Disappear Completely

(Barrow Street, Manhattan - Photos by Joe) A stranger named Ehrie with an East European accent had paid me a surprise visit on Barrow St. in the West Village. My friend Benny, “the cigar store Indian” had sent him to teach me how to “disappear.” Ehrie said it would enable me to avoid the attention of ghosts, demons, and the various paranormal phenomena in NYC. Ehrie definitely seemed [...]

The Fine Art of Disappearing

(“Disappear” - Photos/Photo Art by Joe) I had told Benny, “the cigar store Indian,” about the elusive demon that whispers to me and the threat it had made on my life. Benny asked if there were places I usually heard its voice. I named Smith Street in Brooklyn, where the threat was made, and in Manhattan, South Street by the Seaport and a section along [...]