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Michael Stahl

Michael Stahl

On New York’s darkest day, a disruptive student’s comic antics are just too much to bear.

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Jan 23, 2016

On New York’s darkest day, a disruptive student’s comic antics are just too much to bear.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

It’s the waning moments of my fourth session with a new therapist.

“Well,” my therapist, Lori, says, the millisecond after I become certain our time is up and I might be in the clear. “I don’t think I…

Jan 23, 2016

It’s the waning moments of my fourth session with a new therapist.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

It’s barely eleven a.m.

Actually, Elefantis’s day started two hours earlier when he and his wife, Lola, forty-two, drove from their Astoria home to the nearest…

Jan 23, 2016

It’s barely eleven a.m.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

It’s Friday night in the West Village, the second night of Fashion Week.

“It’s a good feeling putting that uniform on,” Benjamin “EQ” Garcia, a Guardian Angel vet and current patrol director, says.

Jan 23, 2016

It’s Friday night in the West Village, the second night of Fashion Week.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

A little more than a century ago, down a winding, serviceable waterway between Baton Rouge and New…

What those fieldworkers likely didn’t know was that thousands of feet underneath them and in the depths of a sprawling gulf a few hundred…

Jan 23, 2016

A little more than a century ago, down a winding, serviceable waterway between Baton Rouge and New…

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

It’s day two of the 2013 Emperor’s Stickball League Memorial Day Tournament on Stickball Boulevard…

But the players on the blacktop wear scowls. One belongs to Ricardo Torres, Jr., nineteen, batting for the Bronx Emperors, the reigning…

Jan 23, 2016

It’s day two of the 2013 Emperor’s Stickball League Memorial Day Tournament on Stickball Boulevard…

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

Tom Sebazco is somewhere in the monstrous Jacob K.

Sebazco’s in the subterranean “Gift” area, standing in front of his lot, number 5535. His ENI Puzzle stand is adjacent to Vikolya’s shoes…

Jan 23, 2016

Tom Sebazco is somewhere in the monstrous Jacob K.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

The lights are still on and the Magnet Theater is getting full.

A few blocks east, just off Park Avenue, the night starts off with drinks in the chic lobby bar at The People’s Improv Theater, better…

Jan 23, 2016

The lights are still on and the Magnet Theater is getting full.

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

“Parents aren’t disciplining their kids enough!

So pontificates Joe Santagato, eager to criticize the populace for improprieties that have produced irresponsible, overly dependent and…

Jan 23, 2016

“Parents aren’t disciplining their kids enough!

Jan 23, 2016

Michael Stahl

Sit at the end of the bar at Donovan’s Pub long enough and you might learn the names of every…

On a gorgeous December Sunday, Donovan’s regulars forego what might be their last chance to enjoy a daytrip to a nearby park until spring…

Jan 14, 2016

Sit at the end of the bar at Donovan’s Pub long enough and you might learn the names of every…

Jan 14, 2016

Michael Stahl

Michael Stahl

Writer, editor and freelance journalist. Contributor to and Features Editor of @Narratively. Contributor to @queenstrib. All-around derelict of words.

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