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Ellen Bender's avatar

Great to start the week with a Michael Lange essay. As someone who grew up in the western Rockaway peninsula, the reference to the gated community of Breezy Point brought back memories of high school when my friends, the Jewish and Black members of concert band, would drive up to the gates of Breezy Point, knowing that we were not welcome there.

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Samuel Lipson's avatar

All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of m̶i̶s̶e̶r̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶i̶l̶u̶r̶e̶ success

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