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Old Coach Wisdom
The following memoir was published in the Sept. 2022 issue of the British publication, Boxing News: The Wisdom of Old Coaches: From Dundee and D’Amato to Ciocher and Brown OLD COACH WISDOM By Josh Alan Friedman They don’t make old boxing coaches like they used to. The world knows them as Cus D’Mato, Angelo…
more...Stop the Empire Station Complex: Penn Station’s Ghost Still Haunts New York
The following editorial, slightly edited, appeared in the New York Daily News, Oct. 7, 2021 by Josh Alan Friedman Midtown Manhattan is facing its most important land use decision since the destruction of Penn Station 58 years ago. I’m talking here about the soul of the streets, not just the infrastructure or politics. Cuomo’s Empire…
more...Girls Girls Girls: Letters from 1969
There was one precious teenage year when I was pursued by girls, girls, girls. When I was 14, from 8th-9th grade.
more...Sent Away (Part 2)
For some inexplicable reason in the 1960s, Great Neck developed an inflated reputation for having the best schools in America. Families moved to Great Neck to send their kids to school.
more...Hippie Heaven: A Night at the Fillmore East
A night at the Fillmore East in hippie heaven, 1970. A thinly disguised Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West of Mountain. Excerpted from my future novel, All Roads Lead To Great Neck.
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