New York at Home: Photos from America at Home

Perhaps now more than ever, New York City residents create homes for themselves in vastly different ways. Are there any bad neighborhoods anymore? Or are there just places that immigrants and long-time residents subsist next to high-rise hotels and luxury condos?

It's a question not limited to NYC, especially as people are being ejected from their McMansions and middle class homes in the current mortgage meltdown. Presciently, photographer Rick Smolan and his partner Jennifer Erwitt recently published a book called "America At Home." It's a sprawling examination of American domesticity--indoors and outdoors. Below are some examples from the book of New Yorkers at Home.

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By Dave Hogarty in Arts and Events on May 20, 2008 2:00 PM

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Jen Chung

Thanks for all your comments, everyone. I think we have good days and bad days at Gothamist--we try, but sometimes mistakes do unfortunately happen as we work to get stories published and work with touchy technology. Believe me, the last thing I want to read are comments that say how much we suck!

I really do appreciate everyone's thoughts and also encourage you to email us at tips(at)gothamist(dot)com with suggestions.

Anyway, back on topic, I think these photos are beautiful--I'm always a 1-second-voyeur who likes looking at people's apartment windows when I walk by, to see what kind of decorations they have, how they arranged the living room, etc.

matty

I don't mind the writing so much as the fluff content - mostly thanks to jen carlson reposting the entire nytimes fashion section within the week.

Outter Burrougher

in smallish's defense, it does seem to be getting worse of late.

smallish

Surely, I don't; typos, misc. errors, etc. don't bother me. I do, however, come expecting to read something I can actually understand.

smallish

This is very poor writing. More than a few posts as of late have been so poorly written that I had to read them a handful of times before I properly grasped the author's meaning.

'Perhaps now more than ever, the variation in the way that New Yorkers who sometimes live in shouting distance of each other is greater than ever.'

What the hell does that even mean?