“I am looking at a black and white photograph of Muriel Cooper at work captioned ‘Muriel Cooper in conversation with unidentified males, c.1972.’”

“Dear reader, the contents of this magazine are generated through hitchhiking.”

“Windows are often described as the eyes of a building.”

“He rode the length of every train line with his eyes closed, feeling the curve of each track and then drawing the path he perceived in his sketchbook.”

“Vladia Brooks kneads bread in the same spot that her father, Vladimir Nevl, kneaded bread for almost 50 years.”

“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”

The day Chantal Akerman, John Cale, Joan Didion, Bob Dylan, Jonas Mekas, Patti Smith and Andy Warhol arrived in NYC

“‘You’re so cute, I just want to eat you up!’ A grownup told me this when I was a kid and I ran away crying.”

“A man in a fancy black car is holding down his horn at a flock of pigeons that are blocking his way.”

“The Women’s Mountain Bike and Tea Society wants to rub out the image of mountain biking as an extreme sport.”

“The ghost of Annie’s brother was said to go into the pantry for a drink every night at 10 o’ clock.”

“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”

“When all the other mothers wore heels, stockings and hair spray, Esther would come to events with no stockings, no hairspray and no heels.”

“I am making a set of bowls, one for each of the five kids.”

“The litter box may have brought us physically closer to our feline companions, but that doesn’t mean we understand them any better than when they lived mostly outdoors.”

“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”

“One publishes to find comrades.”

“Parasite. noun. par·​a·​site ˈpar-ə-ˌsīt. : an organism living in, with, or on another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.“

“Telling time, taking time, keeping time, time out, time to kill, time is money, time is on my side, race against the clock, ahead of time, a stitch in time, a hard time, buy time, big-time, and so on.”

“The original meaning of the word ‘comprehension’ is ‘to grasp, to seize something with the hands and hold it tight...’”

“One publishes to find comrades.”

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“The parade offers a glimpse at what the neighborhood could be: a place where people are free to be themselves and celebrate who we are. A place where we can be familiar. A place where we can move and breathe.”

“A toxic mix of sewage, trash, urban runoff, and chemical waste released indiscriminately by the factories located along the banks of the Bronx River has wreaked havoc on its ecology for over a century.”

“Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.

“Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.”

“As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?”

“In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.”

“It’s illustrated in a topographic style, with the region seen from above and stretching out to the horizon. The artist even included the sky. . . that’s nice.”

“Just type the word ‘Chinatown’ into a Google image search and it will return pages of brightly colored Chinatown gates.”

“Behind the unassuming and conventional exteriors of public housing project buildings, behind the deferred maintenance and enduring stigma, there are apartment units with unique, enthralling, and expressive interiors.”

“As an architecture student in the 1990s, I puzzled over my instructors’ and classmates’ reflexive dismissal of suburbs, suburban form, and, by extension, suburbanites.”