Diana Balmori
“I would like within the next ten years for the whole surface of the city to be totally porous… ”
Eric Sanderson
“In fact, what we need to be talking about isn’t with nature or without nature, but between nature.”
David Hyde Pierce
I’m not a big person for revolution. I believe in change happening at a pace that allows it to meaningful. So much that I’ve seen going on in the city in the past couple years has seemed to be going in the right direction.
Reese Schonfeld
It’s the most exciting city in the world to work in. I could walk down the street, bump into somebody; you begin to talk to each other and before you know it, we are starting a business. It’s just people you meet casually.
Gavin Schmidt
Let’s deal with the science. And there are uncertainties there too, we can talk about those. But gases don’t care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, left wing or right wing, libertarian or conservative.
Milton Puryear
“All the way from Greenpoint to Bay Ridge there were, for a hundred years, only four places where a private citizen could get to the water.”
Stefan Sagmeister, Khoi Vinh, Ji Lee
“Listening and understanding the other side are the first steps to a truly meaningful exchange…” — Ji Lee
Interviews with New Yorkers and visitors
During the making of this photo essay, someone told us that “the people make the city.” City Atlas plans to include ongoing interviews in all five boroughs–to find out what people think about the future of New York and their role in it.
Grand Central interviews
A short film containing ideas and thoughts of New Yorkers passing through Grand Central Terminal, by Caroline Kim