The Crime of Poverty

Homeless on West 13th

"All the world over, poverty is a misfortune. In New York it is a crime."
James Dabney McCabe, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

Carcassone

Midtown Manhattan

"The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags."
Henry Miller, Cosmological Eye

Just Poor

Chelsea

"In a state like Minnesota or Wisconsin you can be poor and still feel some sense of dignity if you work hard and live fairly cleanly and you keep your eye on the future. But here in New York it seemed as if when you're poor you're just poor. And that means you're nobody. Really nobody."
Robert M. Pirsig, Lila