Winter 2025

BY WILL COMERFORD
Harsimus Cemetery, on Newark Avenue in the morning shadow of the New Jersey Turnpike, you’ll see that most of us have always been pithy in death. There are an estimated 90,000 graves throughout these six acres, mostly burials from the nineteenth century, and many from a cholera epidemic shortly after its founding. There are not too many famous names there — the Colgate family apparently once had a plot, but the old magnate ended up in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. There is a spot holding the dust of Charles F. Durant, the first American to ascend in a balloon in 1833, and an all-around polymath and scientist. But even he kept it simple on the stone: a name and years. Charles F. Esterling is one headstone at
I remember going to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Greenwich Village one summer with someone from high school who would later become a rather close friend though we weren’t really all that simpatico at the time. We’d probably bagged a few beers each, most likely in the vicinity of Washington Square Park to kill some time before the midnight showing at the Waverly Theatre (now the IFC Center) on 6th and West 3rd.
BY ROBERT VERDIBELLO

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