On the Streets

Lower East Side

"New York is a town where you spend a lot of time out on the streets, going from one place to another. You’re out there, and you just have to have a little bit kind of a protective layer over yourself, a little bit of a thicker skin to deal with lots of people coming your way."
Michael Imperioli, Variety

Too Hard for Too Many

Midtown Manhattan

"New York is too hard, for too many. The opportunities, the serendipities, the quintessential experiences and wonders of New York are closed down, and cut off. The thrills and superlatives, the biggest, longest, tallest and best of everything in the world, the very things that more than made up for all the downsides — the rats, high rents, bad smells and loud noises — those things are on pause."
Daily News Editorial Board, NY Daily News