Jean Zimmerman

Tag: lower east side

  • Why fry by the ocean when you can scorch on the NYC sidewalks?

    I hadn’t been to Manhattan in quite some time. Returning, I see all its contrasts as poetry. The old side by side with the new. Burned out church, new construction. Antiquated evidence of New York’s beaver-rich past in the Astor Place subway stop. A million year old hotel, updated several times. The struggles of nature.…

  • Spring, season of music and madness,

    is here. And magic. Trees are still budding out, but in planters on the street flowers bloom. At Hekate, a “sober bar” on Manhattan’s lower east side, there is a little of all three. The music is the band Maputi, with Nora Balaban on the mbira, Banning Eyre on guitar and Rima Fand playing violin.…