by John Ross

I.
EAST COAST SWING (April 1-30th): New Yorkers bask in the hallucination that they dwell at the epicenter of the universe. 9/11 only confirmed that they are the chosen most of the Chosen People. "We are standing here at the center of the universe" Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer addressed a few hundred affordable housing protestors outside 47 3rd Street between first and second avenues at what used to be called the lower east side when my grandmother Mamie Jew (that's the name they gave her at Ellis Island when she got off the boat) tied up here.