Boris Fishman » New York Times: The City http://borisfishman.com Wed, 02 May 2012 14:30:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Urban Tactics: Marlboro Men http://borisfishman.com/new-york-times-the-city/urban-tactics-marlboro-men/ http://borisfishman.com/new-york-times-the-city/urban-tactics-marlboro-men/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:47:52 +0000 Boris http://borisfishman.com/urban-tactics-marlboro-men/ ON wintry nights in Manhattan, little bands of smokers huddle under restaurant awnings, shivering as they struggle to light their cigarettes in the icy wind.

You will not find them outside many of the Russian restaurants in Brighton Beach. Here,…

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]]> http://borisfishman.com/new-york-times-the-city/that-tree-by-the-menorah/feed/ 0 ‘Where Is Home, If the Place You Come From No Longer Exists?’ http://borisfishman.com/new-york-times-the-city/where-is-home-if-the-place-you-come-from-no-longer-exists/ http://borisfishman.com/new-york-times-the-city/where-is-home-if-the-place-you-come-from-no-longer-exists/#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:46:14 +0000 Boris http://new.borisfishman.com/where-is-home-if-the-place-you-come-from-no-longer-exists/ WHAT does it mean to be from a place that is no longer on the map? My homeland, the Soviet Union, disintegrated in late 1991, a scant three years after my family had managed to escape its anti-Semitism and lack…

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