For the Sake of the Apartment

901 Broadway

"In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Exhausted New Yorkers

42nd Street Subway Station

"People in New York love to tell you how exhausted they are. Then they fall apart when someone says, 'Yeah, you look pretty tired'".
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

The Outer Boroughs

Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal

"It was generally agreed that a coffin-size studio on Avenue D was preferable to living in one of the boroughs. Moving from one Brooklyn or Staten Island neighborhood to another was fine, but unless you had children to think about, even the homeless saw it as a step down to leave Manhattan."
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day