NYC Trash Stories

NYC AC: The Chilling Truth

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Summer nights in New York City are imbued with the sultry sound of tank-top men and braless women bathed in a sheen of sweat and bone moonlight, leaning from clanking fire escapes while smoking weed and yelling at boisterous strangers...Read More

Born Onto a Rainbow

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Colors are meaningful. Different colors create different meanings together. Too many human beings are born into shades of darkness, but not the young soul placed onto this soft rainbow, where loving eyes surely gazed upon it.  Sidewalk crib, Hells Kitchen,...Read More

Growing Up

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Everything was gold, Until it wasn’t. The shine of my innocence gone, That currency of trust. The bright luster of the future, The dull shadow of now. The sun setting on the sunrise, That yellow fold of time. Everything was...Read More

Elementary Art

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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” - Pablo Picasso  “Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein “The strength of every...Read More

Book Ends for Introverts

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Introverted New Yorkers will forever lament the demise of books in New York City. No matter how intimidating it felt to attend a friend’s social gathering or holiday apartment party, when social anxiety struck, there was always the bookshelf to...Read More

Knit Wits

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The era of COVID-19 and quarantining has dramatically changed how New Yorkers live life. To cope with our daily anxiety and deep sense of isolation, many New Yorkers have taken on new hobbies and self-improvement initiatives. Knitting, for example, offers...Read More

New York City Pizza: Urban Soul Food

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New York City pizza is the symbol of our culture and the signature staple food in the culinary lexicon of our citizens. Our colorful City is home to more than 8.3 million people who speak over 800 different languages. With...Read More

PPE Mask: Trash Item of the Year

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The 2020 Trash Item of the Year is the now-iconic sky-blue face mask donned by our heroic healthcare workers, essential employees, and responsible science-believing New Yorkers across the City. This low-tech piece of healthcare equipment has saved countless lives, hospital...Read More

The Emotions of Snow

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Snow in New York City is an emotional journey. Snowfall begins as a quiet, introspective experience, the white flakes wafting around buildings and cars like billions of dandelion seeds tethered to each other, silently settling down into windswept corners of...Read More

NYC: Finding Your Legs

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Every New Yorker has days when life goes sideways. When our legs are swept out from under us and our world loses balance...  You are surrounded by 8.5 million fellow New Yorkers, but your significant other is actually your spare...Read More

Alone Together

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New York City has always been a uniquely lonely place for wayward souls that bend toward solitude in a scrambling throng of millions. Perhaps we find meaning in the penumbra of that juxtaposition, or perhaps we just ended up here...Read More

Always St. Patrick’s Day

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Sometimes our trash can be intangible things we leave behind, like memories and moments. COVID-19 has forever changed New York City, and for places like the Barcelona Bar on 8th Avenue, time stopped just before St. Patrick’s Day 2020 and...Read More

Goodnight, Walker

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We all get old. Our bodies deteriorate. Our autumn arrives with its scattered leaves and cold, wet nights. And then we pass with the season. Goodnight, Walker, whoever you were. You will be missed. New York City Forever. Now more...Read More

Missing You

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In New York City pets are trusted soul mates who love us unconditionally and never judge our bad decisions or get drunk and leave their keys in the front door. For many New Yorkers, our pets and plants are the...Read More

Out of Office

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Abandoned office chairs on the sidewalks of New York City symbolize how the very idea of work is experiencing a transformation across the City. Entire office buildings remain largely vacant, hollow carcasses of empty rooms, silent elevators, and quiet hallways...Read More

You Too Shall Break So NYC Can Live

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Everything in life has its prime – that moment when it was the most alive, the most attractive and fashionable, the most sturdy and useful… the most together. But that time ends.  The soul of New York City is composed...Read More

A Requiem: NYC Apartment Plants

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Plants absorb the wayward humanity of New York City. Our congested metropolis is expensive, stressful, and often void of the shapes and colors that human beings need to feel connected to nature and the larger universe. So New Yorkers take...Read More

Bread Winners & Losers

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New York City is a matrix of misfortune and millionaires. Between good luck and greed and inequality and those arrested for weed, life just isn’t fair in New York City. At the center of these extremes and juxtapositions and injust...Read More

Ironing Boredom

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Beneath the glowing lights of Broadway, behind the whirling sirens of careening fire engines, and hidden from the stylish fashions paraded around by hip New Yorkers, there is mundane life. Cleaning behind the refrigerator. Wiping toothpaste smudges from the bathroom...Read More

Shades of Light

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Light, like the truth, can be manipulated. It can be illuminated and misdirected and – with enough effort – obscured by darkness. There is light in the apartment of every New Yorker, with natural light being the most desired and...Read More