The Newtown Pentacle

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Project Firebox 101

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An ongoing catalog of New York’s endangered Fireboxes.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

When I told my Grandmother that I wished to grow up to be an artist around age 10, she clutched at her bosom and cried out “you’ll be a bum on da Bowery mid a needle in dein arm.” The Jewish version of crossing herself, which is doing the dishes, followed. This firebox has seen the bums come and go on the Bowery, and is always ready to summon help whether you are the dispossessed or merely one of the gentry.

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Written by Mitch Waxman

December 21, 2013 at 12:23 pm

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