This is about a New York that no longer exists.
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What a wonderful story! I wish I could have seen his speakeasy bookstore :)
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@Truth Sayer It was a fabulous place.
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I love NY stories, and people, like this, and I too wish I'd known about the bookstore, and send my condolences.
But reading this also got me reminiscing (old-timer that I seem to be now!) about Manhattan in the '60's (where I spent an intoxicating childhood living in Peter Cooper Village), 70's, and, to an extent, early '80's. I've heard it said that the city was a dirty, decrepit, amoral mess back then (when Times Square was actually an interesting place to walk around and play Diane Arbus for a while!). But as far as I'm concerned it was a paradise where anything could happen, and I miss it.
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I hope he finds my dad, Richard Kasak in the next life and they salon, read, publish and sell books together.
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What an incredibly sounding man, who created a wonderful world for so.may to enjoy. Nice!
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Darn! I had no idea Branzenhead Books was literally one block from my home! Clearly I am not part of those who are in the "literary know" but it is also a statement about how anonymous we really are to each other in a city like New York. Condolences to Michael Seidenberg's family.
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@kkm I lived 6 years on 84th and 1st and also had no idea.
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