
Visual essays on New York as observed by someone who adores it.
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What I've seen around town.
A discerning dispatch of ten observations, sketches, emphatic recommendations, and secrets of the city. A sort of annotated bibliography of the last few weeks.
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A long, raw, radius-shrinking winter. I crack my window open one afternoon. The sounds of the street fill the room, and moments later I turn to see it is now snowing inside.
Then, the blizzards. I watch a guy walk backwards against th...
On the state of romance in New York.
The world of adults. How better to explain the energy of 86th Street in 1999? My mom took me by the hand to our neighborhood’s first Starbucks. We lifted to our lips the lemon pound cake, devouring this...
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