Things Unnoticed

West 113th

"New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathedral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building."
Gay Talese, New York: A Serendipiter's Journey

Wicked

Manhattan Detention Complex

"There's more wickedness in one block in New York City than there was in a square mile in Nineveh."
John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer

Scranton

Lafayette Street

"New York is like Scranton on acid. No…on speed…no, on steroids."
Michael Scott (Steve Carell), The Office