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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 Islandโ€™s East Shore pushing against the trend. As the transmission rate in the vicinity pushed it into the โ€œorange zone,โ€ Macโ€™s Public House declared last month it would not abide by a state-mandated closure but instead stay open with a โ€œsuggested donationโ€ model intended to skirt business regulations.

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Bye Bye Metrocard — A Eulogy to New Yorkโ€™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 Islandโ€™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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