Tiny New York: The Smallest Things in the Biggest City

I loved this little book. It’s a collection of stories and pictures of small things in New York City.

It starts off with the 10th Congressional District, which is only 10.5 square miles. And it works through 44 entries to the Thrips, which is a bug found in NYC which is 1mm long.

The size keeps working down. You go through small ethnic populations, then a lot of spaces – tiny barber shops, theaters, restaurants, etc. – then there’s an entry for an apartment which is just 9.5 feet away from an elevated train, and so on. Each “chapter” is just a couple pages, and it has some narrative, maybe an interview, and some great pictures.

The book is… adorable. I’ve often enjoyed the dynamic of small discoveries in larger cities, and NYC is by definition, the largest stage for this. I would love to do the same thing in Sioux Falls.

In any city, there are so many stories to find out about, you just need to look at things you would normally not noticed.

I loved this book. I read a few entries a day, over the course of a couple weeks. I loved picking it up every day.

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