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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.
Window to a bigger world. The Lam family crowds two Chinese-born parents and three American-born children into two tiny rooms. One serves as a combination kitchen, bathroom, living room, and dining room; the other holds four beds jammed together. Here, under the gaze of their parents wedding photo, the Lam children watch TV.
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Hate to pull the Ipod out of your ears, but yes, there are still bad neighborhoods -- and the coming downturn will really take it up a notch.
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?
smallfish -- surely you don't come here for the writing skills?
Surely, I don't; typos, misc. errors, etc. don't bother me. I do, however, come expecting to read something I can actually understand.
then may I suggest:
www.nytimes.com
in smallish's defense, it does seem to be getting worse of late.
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.
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.