Archive for the ‘Starbucks’ Category
Triptych
The doorman stood about ten feet off the corner of 85th and West End, a few steps from his post. He lit a half-finished cigarette. The blue-grey smoke was like chiffon against his cocoa skin. His baggy pants were navy blue with double-yellow stripes down the sides. Staring at the teetering 1-year-old […]
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Fix
No way this guy looked like a smoker. Dusty red hair with a scruffy beard that he wore like windburn, trimmed close, stylish eyeglasses but the type not foreign to computer hackers and - the dead giveaway to straight-and-narrow non-smokers - a blue blazer and khakis. No way. Yet there he strode, across 36th Street heading uptown […]
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Make it with Caro syrup
Citarella, the gourmet meat market, is across the street from the Starbucks I usually sit at until 10:30 or 11:00, when it’s time to go home and rack out in my $60/night bed at Hephzibah House. My friend Carl, whose apartment I crashed in last night while he was out of town, had a gigantor hunk […]
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As the B-52s punch their words into my inner ear, “down, down, down…skedubidub…hrrrrr…ahhh..ahhhahhh…Rock Lobstah!” I recall a few minutes ago when a 20-something guy with a crew cut, backpack, and wild look in his eyes walks into the Starbucks on 76th and Columbus where I’m doing my evening news catch-up, drinking the requisite decaf, checking out […]
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One-click
Today’s Times noted the new offering at Starbucks that I posted about the other day. FYI. Just wanted you to know, Dear Reader, that Mead was on top of it… photo: Andrade/Times
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