Memoirs

NYC Mental Health Crisis Unfolds at Kips Bay Starbucks: A Homeless Couple’s Story

Today at Kips Bay, Manhattan Starbucks, I witnessed a scene that revealed the heartbreaking complexity of love, mental illness, and our city’s broken support system. It began when a homeless man knocked over a table, disrupting the calm of the coffee shop. The employee, maintaining remarkable composure, politely asked him to leave. Instead, he curled […]

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A Christmas Eve in Brooklyn: When Life Turned on a Dime

On Christmas Eve 1990, life’s precarious nature revealed itself to me in ways I never expected. As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie who had recently agreed to cooperate with federal authorities, I was already living through a period of profound change. Yet nothing could have prepared me for how events would unfold that evening

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