Chambers Street and Church Street

“Let’s say, for a moment, that the character of a city has an effect on its inhabitants…. Let’s say, for a moment, that the literal situation of a city can leak out into the metaphorical realm. That the city is the vessel and we are all merely beings of differing viscosity, slowly taking on the shape of that into which we are poured.” —from The Dead Ladies Project by Jessa Crispin (who is talking about Berlin, not New York)