I also recently walked around the neighborhood looking for discarded bottles of pee with the filmmaker John Wilson, whose HBO Max show, How To with John Wilson is a must-see for any New Yorker. One teen sniped at me, “Jackson Pollock’s got a big head!” The head was huge and heavy and I could barely see out of it. He needed people to run around the museum in it, greeting visitors like Mickey does at Disneyland. There have been a million moments but here are two: the artist Maurizio Cattelan did a project at MoMA 20 years ago where he constructed a sports-mascot-type costume of Pablo Picasso. What’s your favorite New York minute (or moment) so far? “It’s the only record I have from that period”. It will be out in paperback in July.Īmy in the hospital with Frank, post-Valentine. I recently published my fifth book, a comic novel about money called The Means. It was a beautiful building to work in and a great introduction to New York. I worked in publicity, writing press releases and the like.

My first job in New York was at the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza. What was your first job? What do you do now? We ended up marrying and came to the West 30s in 2001, right before our first son was born. After he recovered, we could joke about the fact that the driver of the car was named Mr. The day after I moved here he got hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk on First Avenue and was in the hospital for six weeks. We had broken up but I was still talking to him constantly.

I came to New York from Boston to see whether or not I should get together with a former boyfriend. So, what’s your New York story? Born here, or just arrived? Author Amy Fusselman has lived in Hell’s Kitchen for over 20 years and still marvels at the neighborhood’s versatility - “You can never predict what’s going to appear,” she says.

Savage Park by Amy Fusselman