Eleanor Vance
1965 • West Village
Every morning at 5am, the smell of fresh bread would drift up through the floorboards. My mother would leave a basket by...
Marcus Webb
1972 • Harlem
I remember when the 6 train had acoustics that made you feel like you were in a concert hall. Musicians would play on th...
Sarah Chen
1985 • Chelsea
During the fiscal crisis, when the city went dark, we grew tomatoes in reclaimed bathtubs on the roof. Every apartment t...
James Morrison
1996 • Upper East Side
The blizzard buried the city. No cars, no noise, just the sound of shovels and neighbors meeting for the first time in y...
Roberto Santos
2010 • Greenwich Village
Before it became a bank branch, this corner was The Blue Note's cousin. My father tended bar there. Coltrane once sat in...