The G. There’s a lot of us, boisterous, uncontained. Loud voices discussing things sure to frighten other passengers. Ejected by steam into the vomit-coated street. Turning in place. Standing in the chill and talking; the little one shivers like a wind-up penguin and tells us she can kill a man with her bare thumbs. We shove wadded-up [...]

Jacob Riis was a Danish-American journalist with a reformist bent from the turn of the century.  For those not a personal fan of Riis, the term is “muckraker.”  He was the son of a hard-working Danish newspaper-editor who had fourteen other children to worry about.  At 12 he donated all of his Christmas money to a poorer family [...]

Today’s post is on: nostalgia, or, ‘we don’t live here anymore.’  Some of them try to capture what the city of New York, metaphysically, ideologically, hypothetically is, some simply seem to see it as their duty to preserve a clear record of New York as it existed from their distinct perspective (what New York is [...]