Hell's Bitchen

… I recently moved to the Upper East Side from Hells Kitchen so this …   Here are a few things Ive learned during the 18 months I lived in my HK walkup …   … 1 A buildingor even an … young I do not want to have any connection to those I live near   In my Hells Kitchen tenement it was mostly the …

… have to be made into one which isnt so bad because thats what I did  last time I wasnt looking forward to that … a whole room as a closet and dressing area and most lowend renters like myself do not have that luxury    … 1b … I went …

… If you have been reading my column for the last year and a half you have … prompted a variety of thoughts and feelings   While he was alive I had wished he was not the super because he caused me … vestibule   Bobby was not a good super and the fact that he lived in that little stonefloored space next to the garbage …

… I keep hearing about the emergence of millions of cicadas on the East … in number Im not sure which I fear more It is great to live in Midtown because I seem to always be equidistant from … is that you are in tourist central This was not so where I lived on the Upper East Side in Yorkville I would rarely see …

… drug deals and prostitution The truth was somewhat different While I did live over an OTB remember those and there … given birth to the fancy schmancy Mercedes House a highrise rental building that boasts pools yes plural and Ink48 a … A memory not only of my older grittier beloved Midtown Far West but also of the little shop that coulduntil it couldnt …

… left off I had just had my apartment treated for the first time for bed bugs Two weeks later my PCO returned to once … spray to kill the unwanted intruders  In the meantime like a total mental patient Id been scanning the room several times a day looking for something Since the first and only …