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Middle Class War: A Visit to Staten Island’s Autonomous Zone

A.M. Gittlitz

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This piece was originally published on December 20, 2020 and is one of a series of Trump-related articles we're republishing. Transmission rates are on the rise again in New York City. Hospital beds are filling, the temperature is dropping, and most have accepted a renewed lockdown to be a foregone conclusion. But the talk of the town has been a humble pub on Staten Island’s East Shore pushing against the trend. As the transmission rate in the vicinity pushed it into the “orange zone,” Mac’s Public House declared last month it would not abide by a state-mandated closure but instead stay open with a “suggested donation” model intended to skirt business regulations.

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Bye Bye Metrocard — A Eulogy to New York’s Golden Ticket

A.M. Gittlitz

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Part of living in New York is accepting the brutality of rapid change with a cynical shrug as all you love and depend on vanish to make way for something almost certainly worse. Over the past ...

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Death of an Anarchist

A.M. Gittlitz

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On May 13 Peter Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, frontman of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, passed away at the age of 50. Few others in the history of the genre so seamlessly and sincerely combined ...

Middle-Class War: A Visit to Staten Island’s Autonomous Zone

A.M. Gittlitz

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Transmission rates are on the rise again in New York City. Hospital beds are filling, the temperature is dropping, and most have accepted a renewed lockdown to be a foregone conclusion. But the talk of the ...

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