Tricky

"The city is tricky. The highs are so much higher, but in the lows you drop straight down again to bedrock. It helps that streets are snapped to a grid. There are also psychic boutiques and sidewalk prophets, but until you contrive your own love story set in that city, even one as warped as mine, you remain outside it, looking for signals in the white smoke that rises from under, in the sudden hot laundry smells and the LED typos of street vendors donut easily becomes dount, ominously like don't, to my mind. There was a DOUNT sign on Second Avenue which more than once redirected my superstitious footsteps."
Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

New York Types

North Williamsburg

"Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types."
Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

New York View

East 42nd Street

"You should also, sweetheart, as I have said before, COME TO NEW YORK. It is so healthy to be somewhere where the view always changes without your having to move."
Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy