I found this diary this week at the Goodwill on 2nd Avenue between 88th and 89th. It only had one entry, January 1st, 1990. It’s easy to imagine this person deciding to keep a journal for the new year and then stopping after one day- I’ve done that many times.

During high school, as I was becoming acquainted with the downtown music and art scenes, I was embarrassed to tell people I was from the Upper East Side- even more embarrassed to tell them I went to Dalton. However, after four years of living downtown near college I became sick of the […]