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Flatiron

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Flatiron

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Flatiron is a recurring place in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between May 28, 2024 and July 23, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “after I’m in Flatiron looking for someone to let me into a cuff links store”; “Tibet House is in Flatiron”; “In Flatiron, which is a very good place for inducing things like manic episodes”. It most often appears alongside August Lamm, Brooklyn, Chloe Pingeon.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: May 28, 2024
  • Last seen: July 23, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

COLLECTED AGENDA #2
May 28, 2024 · Original source
Later, I’m at brunch at Cafe Cluny eating french fries in the sun and then after I’m in Flatiron looking for someone to let me into a cuff links store that’s in the same building as my dermatologist and then I’m walking by The Portal where everyone is just standing and waving and waving and waving and it occurs to me that this whole project is just a twenty four-seven feedback loop of everyone just waving. Like there’s new people churning in and out but the crowd is such that it’s just one interchangeable block on the screen, and I’m only there for three minutes but the whole time this whole mass is just infinitely waving. Creeps me out that this terminal greeting has been going on for weeks. I’m overwhelmed and helpless (getting a cab).
Inline links: Cafe Cluny, The Portal
Everything I Wanted
October 21, 2024 · Original source
I have increasingly realized the importance of doing things outside of my favorite cycle of orbit, and so I go to Tibet House tonight. There’s a reading. This part isn’t new, but the particular material here is. Tibet House is in Flatiron and it smells distinctly of incense and of something else that I can’t place, but which I recall immediately with a childlike simplicity as the scent of YOGA. It smells like the meditation room in my mother’s friend's house where I would play growing up while the grownups talked. They would host silent barefoot retreats in the backyard. I would watch through the window, and would think these were silly, but I knew you weren't supposed to laugh. I always thought I should like the scent of incense, but I never really did. Too earthy. Turmeric made my stomach hurt.
Inline links: https://www.instagram.com/tibethouse.us/
Indulging in the Eschaton
October 28, 2024 · Original source
In Flatiron, which is a very good place for inducing things like manic episodes, I pass many strange signs.
Coffeeshop Gossip
July 23, 2025 · Original source
WHAT I DID Friday, July 18 Civil twilight haze of the nicest kind outside and, I forgot to turn the lights off. Caffe Reggio is open until four am, so this will be a good place to start. There is always so much time, I noted. There is, actually, not that much time, I noted after that. So for example my sister really likes the opera and so we go to the opera a lot, my one other Reggio compatriate is telling his date. It’s good here because there is no music. It’s good here, because without music, and sober somewhere loud and public for once, you can really hear the chatter. Stain glass lanterns and big glass windows and relics of worship. I tell Amelia she can join me if she wants but she’s sleeping. I tell Amelia I haven’t been having bad dreams. So you feel at home in your house, my old man Reggio compatriate is telling his very pretty date. I do, the date is saying. I do. I am thinking - It’s good to be sure about why you are eavesdropping. It’s good to be sure about what everyone else can hear. It’s ok for now. I’m the only one who can hear at this hour, and it doesn’t seem like much of what my compatriots are saying is secret. Coffeeshop Gossip. I regret most of the times I have become particularly open. In my plans; I am mostly sober; I possess tremendous integrity and discretion. Sitting in Caffe Reggio with a glass of wine and a chicken caprese salad live blogging my early morning. The date next to me got up to leave and they passed off to me, two overflowing chalices of wine. Insane thing to do. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. Thinking about who I can call right now. I don't think I have ever been lonely before. Insane and annoying thing to say, but I think it might be true. I make a few more notes. I'm not lonely. I'm at Caffe Reggio at civil twilight alone with two overflowing chalices of wine that I cannot drink lest I get drunk or vomit or god forbid, fall asleep. I sleep with the lights off, but it is already bright through the greenhouse windows. Saturday, July 19 The play last night was nice; one of my favorites - By Morning. Talk of watching geese while they fly overhead at dusk from the porch, tyrannical fathers, a family composed of equally near irredeemable brothers whom I found all to be strangely endearing, and nearly the whole family's mutual gf who is deemed manipulative but not that smart. It ended with a gunshot. I walked down the stairs of the strange theater. My friends were in Brooklyn. My friends were in Flatiron. I was asked to stop live blogging. I said; I never live blog, I write a Diary of Fiction. It all quieted down. You have a lot going for you, they said. I guess, I said. They cancelled my meeting and I would like to not be disappointed. I walked for a while at sunrise again and slept little. This is fine. So you admit you are neurotic, I was told. It started to rain again outside Caffe Reggio. Madelyn says she is not intentionally influenced by any artist but it is like, she grabs the color green! I would like to become very strong in England. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Wednesday, July 23 From 10pm at Night Club 101 — Jasmine Johnson, Crush Sahara, and Ezra Marcus
Inline links: By Morning, Night Club 101, Jasmine Johnson, Crush Sahara, Ezra Marcus

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