Email Author Ambrose Clancy

1999 Stories by Ambrose Clancy

• Dual to the death

  published November 23, 1999

  It is customary in my family on St. Patrick's Day to ask every Irish person you meet if he's been to City Hall yet. When someone asks why, you... More >>

• EMERGENCY

  published November 23, 1999

  Before Ramona DeRienzo landed an office job last April, the 43-year-old Levittown resident had worked as a diner waitress for 23 years without any... More >>

• The hardest-working comic on Long Island! Glen Anthony!

  published November 9, 1999

  What's it like for a comedian to bomb? Glen Anthony has to sit down to talk about the trauma of stand-up. "OK, you ready?" he says. "You fall... More >>

• Our Own Piece of 'The Rock'

  published October 12, 1999

  Captain Kidd, who is said to have buried treasure on Fishers Island, was just the first of many buccaneers to invest in the place; later pirates... More >>

• The young man and the sea

  published September 28, 1999

  The charter shows up at 6:15 p.m. on a hot day at Orient Marina, five middle-aged men with fishing rods, boots, coolers and three six-packs of... More >>

• Casting no doubts

  published August 24, 1999

  It's estimated that there are 75,000 actors in New York City. Joel Manaloto, attending an average of 10 plays a week, is on his way to seeing... More >>