City Life
A hundred years of great writing, curated for The New Yorker’s centenary.
Living in New York’s Unloved Neighborhood
A nameless section of Manhattan resembles the nineteen-seventies city that’s been romanticized in the movies. But do we really want to live in “Taxi Driver”?
Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York
I walk through my neighborhood dealing with personal stuff, including learning how to physically and mentally defend myself against those who do not feel that my “I” should exist at all.
Moving On, a Love Story
To move into the Apthorp was to enter a state of giddy, rent-stabilized delirium.
Before Air-Conditioning
The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya? Ha-ha!”
The Skyscraper That Could Have Toppled Over in the Wind
What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for an office tower are flawed—and hurricane season is approaching.
