Email Author Kristen Lombardi

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• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 28, 2006

  "Death by Dust"

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2006 Stories by Kristen Lombardi

• Death by Dust

  published November 21, 2006

  It was October 6, 2004, three years after Ernie Vallebuona's three-month stint as a rescue and recovery worker at ground zero in the wake of the... More >>

• The Squatter

  published September 26, 2006

  Daniel Peckham has a mantra, and it goes like this: Top floor, rear, facing south. Top floor, rear, facing south. Top floor, rear, facing... More >>

• Some Kids Left Behind

  published September 5, 2006

  Lila Nordstrom's 9-11 awakening came late—five years late, to be exact. Last fall, as she entered her final year at Vassar College, she... More >>

• Stump the Trump

  published August 1, 2006

  With customary bravado, Donald Trump unveiled his new plan for Soho on national TV. He was sitting onstage before a live audience, filming the... More >>

• Trouble in Store

  published July 25, 2006

  Ever live off pennies a day? Ramon Nuñez has—literally. Pennies. Dimes. Quarters. That's what he'd pocket in wages from his shifts... More >>

• Silence of the Lam

  published July 18, 2006

  Abe vividly remembers that wall. The "bragging wall," as he's come to call it, was crammed with certificates and diplomas. He remembers... More >>

• New Lessons in Class

  published June 13, 2006

  Courtney Sale Ross swept through the front door of a Lower East Side school on a May afternoon, an entourage trailing. A wealthy... More >>

• Pushed Off the Pinnacle

  published May 16, 2006

  Pedro Garcia got a registered letter from his landlord last August, a few months after his parents moved from the apartment where he grew up in... More >>

• Undulating Facades

  published May 2, 2006

  Ken Lill can tell you all about the reams of information he's had to submit to the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission for permission to fix... More >>

• Grandmothers of Invention

  published April 11, 2006

  Two weeks before going to trial in Manhattan Criminal Court for disorderly conduct, Joan Wile was stirring things up again. The founder of... More >>

• Her Right to Be Obnoxious

  published April 4, 2006

  Dyandria Darel is a tiny woman who speaks in a soft voice and often walk s hunched over a cane because of a decades-old injury. Yet when Darel,... More >>

• Gay and Loud

  published March 14, 2006

  Dave Poster will tell anyone who listens about the gay teenagers who plague his neighborhood—the ones with enough attitude to tell you to... More >>

• Not Subject to Review

  published February 28, 2006

  Elizabeth Langwith used to love the view from her East Village apartment window. Every day for 11 years she took in the scene from her 10th-floor... More >>

• Truth Out

  published February 14, 2006

  Jenna Orkin doesn't expect to hear her truth about 9-11 unless someone forces the officials involved to tell it. For her, as for so many people... More >>

• Outing Cardinal Egan

  published January 31, 2006

  Who knows whether Cardinal Edward Egan is sleeping soundly these days. But as head of the New York archdiocese—as the top Roman Catholic... More >>

• Who Would Take a Case Like This?

  published January 31, 2006

  Manhattan attorney John Aretakis likes to say that he's in it for the long haul. And after 10 years of handling clergy-sexual-abuse... More >>

• Rape: Now a Matter of Civil Rights

  published January 10, 2006

  On June 14, 2003, Karla Kash, then an Upper West Side resident, walked the 10 blocks to her apartment alone after her late-night bartending shift... More >>

• Honorary Jew

  published January 3, 2006

  Last month, Yeshiva University presented Hillary Clinton with an honorary degree. Commemorating Yeshiva's 81st annual Hanukkah convocation, a... More >>