Sandy, who has access to the private Gramercy Park, on her way to get some money she was owed.

Sandy

Julia from La Bicyclette close to home, after we vaguely recognized each other at Mister Sunday

Julia

Kuba, right before we hung out in the empty top floor of The Dominick Hotel with floor-to-ceiling windows.

Kuba

Kayleigh, getting swept up in the Knicks like the rest of us.

Kayleigh

Stan, actor, who met his manager while working at Ebreo.

Stan

Sage, midway through a barb wire tattoo at [Secret Door](https://www.instagram.com/thesecretdoornyc).

Sage

Sarah, who needed our discarded new-office boxes to pack up her ceramics studio.

Sarah

Marcus, who showed me the agentic commerce app he was working on, and wished me the best in my search for a path.

Marcus

Unnamed skaters, at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge walkway, waiting for a friend to ride down.

Unnamed

Crow, selling prints from old magazines on a corner in Williamsburg.

Crow

Sele from Argentina, at my usual pizza spot.

Sele

Awa, taking a smoke break at the bar on Fulton and Putnam.

Alina with Camilla from Norway at the late night takeout spot.

Alina

Joshua, Bushwick born and raised, often mistaken for Indian, smoking a spliff and writing a movie idea down.

Joshua

[Bridge](https://www.instagram.com/iambridgeet), DJ, heading out shortly to play at Lightning in a Bottle.

Bridge

Kate, who gets greater as a partner and mother every day.

Kate

[Mike Mignano](https://x.com/mignano), venture capitalist, and a new GP at USV.

Mike

Phoebe, with her old praying mantis mask, and her silicone praying mantis end-of-year project purse

Phoebe

Ella, visiting from London, sitting outside Swallow, who doesn't do well in photos but understands the point of the project.

Ella

[Alex](https://www.instagram.com/alxpalumbo/), cinematographer, who I met in the park two years prior, coincidentally filming Kate for Zo.

Alex

Darrell, chainsaw carver, who took it up after retiring as an electrician.

Darrell

Kali, feeling herself and camera-ready at Ebreo.

Kali

[Lucy](https://www.instagram.com/videlectronixsuperstore), drummer, picking up a bagel between Nova One shows.

Lucy

Herman, heading to pick up a brisket sandwich after dropping off his friend in Ridgewood.

Herman

Adames

Alyssa, who almost got into trouble with SAA for letting me take this photo.

Alyssa

Randy, who pointed to his hat when I asked him his name.

Randy

Lindsay, who I saw out of my car window, walking an hour and half across town for babepile.

Lindsay

[Cheyelle](https://www.instagram.com/fbmarketslut/), in between selling furniture, designing interfaces, and making coffee at her namesake store in Bushwick.

Cheyelle

[Amalya](https://www.instagram.com/amalyameira/) in her workshop at Lagoon, overflowing with overgrowing yarn creations.

Amalya

Ka Kei, who can't get dim sum in Colombia, so he gets it every time he visits New York, the morning we got rained out from playing tennis at the US Open courts.

Ka Kei

JJ Goode, cookbook ghostwriter and coffee shop regular who seems to know everyone in the place.

Nurys, at the local grocery store, who's often singing in the aisles and joking with the deli guys.

Nurys

Alexis

Milo and Willow and another friend who are all probably in Pratt student band together.

Milo

David of [Better Read Than Dead](https://www.betterreadthandeadbooks.com/), in his Bed Stuy basement book garage, who said that a surprising number of thrift sellers are named David.

David

Brandon, who was very sweet when I cut him in line at Corto.

Brandon

Ava, experienced babysitter, ending sophomore year at NYU, about to watch Theo for the night.

Buddy, who's been playing the violin on the subway for years, and was waiting for a busier stop to start.

Buddy

Pam, who said I should have photographer her an hour ago when she won 2nd place in a hat making competition and fashion show.

Alyssa, who liked that I called photography my 'outlet' cause her art is something she _has_ to get out of herself as well.

Ray, who goes by a different name on every platform, on my 2nd day at Zo.

Ben after Bathhouse, who said that all banya trips are expensable at Zo.

Bill, waiting for the rain to pass under the cow umbrella.

Bill

Scott Sixkiller Sinquah, hoop dancer from a family of hoop dancers from the Gila River Indian Community.

Scott Sixkiller

Homerun, not his name, but he was sitting outside the store about to help his friend set it up for opening.

Homerun

Ishac, creative technologist, hardware/software hacker, who made a little landline phone for his daughter to call all (and only) her friends and relatives.

Ishac

Becca, who missed the coffee bean delivery so I got the last espresso of that day at Apartment Ra'el.

Becca

Scout, walking the kids out the door at pick up.

Scout

Khalif, who owns Newton's Laundromat on Gates, and says it's like being a bartender, you hear everyone's woes.

Khalif

[Emily](https://www.instagram.com/thevetiver/), street photographer, trying out the X100 and not yet sure about it.

Emily

Nira

Meatloaf

Snap, at his upholstry shop / warehouse on Bedford.

Snap

Raissa, gathering herbs from their garden and the neighbor's garden too.

Raissa

Thea

Ethan and Chantelle, with their daughter at the Bayfront splash park.

Ethan and Chantelle

Zeke, who paddled up to Midnight Pass, [opened up by Hurricanes Helene and Milton](https://www.scgov.net/government/planning-and-development-services/midnight-pass#ad-image-0).

Zeke

Brian, swapping the batteries out and getting the boat ready for tomorrow.

Brian

Cecile, writing a letter to her aunt, wondering if she should stay to keep teaching in Sarasota.

Cecile

Theo, who climbed up the tallest hill in Sarasota mostly by himself.

Theo

Amy and Rigo, waiting to catch a glimpse of the Artemis launch. A few hours later we did see it shoot off into the clouds.

Amy and Rigo

Khaleed, at The Word is Change on Tompkins, Theo's favorite bookstore. And Alexander, the owner, watching the street party for the closing of The Brew.

Khaleed

Leo, picking up tents and sleeping bags for a weekend at Moonrise Valley.

Jennifer Prezioso, the butcher of Elizabeth St.

Jennifer

Ridd

Toure, Fort Greene tennis legend, and [much more](https://www.instagram.com/toureshow).

Toure

Mor, and a backyard BBQ to bring in the summer.

Rylan

Stefan, and Leon, in Viktoria's arms after a playground tumble

Stefan

Mitch

Dhruv, done with running Elsewhere, onto a different slice of nightlife.

Dhruv

Paolo and his Leica, visiting from Florence, 

Paolo

Unnamed, with the Undertaker outside the metalworkers on Thames.

Brie

DK and Bri, finding animals in the clouds.

DK and Bri

Freeno, who said I must be wicked smaht when I said I went to UPenn.

Freeno

Harold, 83, writing a book about reversing aging, wearing a shirt showing all the homes he's sold in Brooklyn.

Harold

The unnamed worker, loading up flowers outside ephemera in Bushwick.

Unnamed at ephemera

Giovanna, whose name might not actually be Giovanna, out in the drizzle with her girls.

Giovanna

Sadie and Alana, smoking a cig before walking into Beacon's Closet.

Sadie and Alana

Sam, whose parents own Apple Arts, which has been on Dekalb since 1940.

Claire, who brought ramp butter for everyone at dinner.

Claire

Amber, taking her sick son out for a walk in the basket of her cargo bike.

Amber

Picture man Bob Greco, making Red Brick Square come alive with his Polaroids and his friends.

Hoku, taking the planning of the shoot up a couple of notches.

Hoku

[Reanna](https://www.instagram.com/ruetookthis/), sick skate photographer, trying on faces around the corner from exposure therapy.

Reanna

[Britt](https://brittbolton.com/), at her jewelry workshop at The Hunt, preparing to send some rings to the casters, and planning her father's memorial.

Britt

Ayelah and Emme, walking into an empty Washington Square Park on a rainy afternoon.

Ayelah and Emme

Rown, long time server at our favorite ramen spot, Menkoi Sato.

Rown

Don Kilcoyne, running for Warwick Town Board, who wants more of their decisions to be made out in the open.

Erica, getting ready in a 235 year old house on one farm for a wedding party on another.

Erica

Dante, the day after his wedding, the day before the celebration, in his hometown of Warwick, NY.

Dante

Isa, who keeps the line growing and moving at [welcome home](https://www.instagram.com/welcomehome.bk), now my regular bakery.

Theo, visiting Home Depot for the first time in his life.

[Shekhar](https://shreyans.org/portraits/61), now also a father, at the red clay courts by the river.

Shekhar

[Janna](https://www.instagram.com/jannaj_/), whose necklace spells the name of her first EP, '[Lovesuite](https://open.spotify.com/album/2tsb7F0w8GGQyrYr7GnqIV)', sitting in perfect light in the corner of the wine bar.

Janna

Amira, who plans to sit in the sun and do nothing else on this perfect Monday, stretching and hanging but not climbing the art with Naim at Herbert von King.

Amira

Jesse on his 36th birthday, and Luna with all the spikeballs, who quietly called for Theo, and sweetly said 'bye' when we left.