I came across a recent prompt asking "what is your favorite book about NYC?" Mine is the The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill (1964), a children's book I first red in 4th grade and probably my first exposure to New York City. The book has plenty of fans, its own New Yorker profile from 2014,... Continue Reading →
I almost stumbled over these rubber tubes strewn across a major arterial road, which are attached to unmarked boxes locked to trees along the median. These are most likely means of tracking and quantifying traffic and car counts. I used to think they could track speed and thus were part of police surveillance. At this... Continue Reading →
Dhaka traffic, off all kinds and modes, is a paradox of spatial efficiency and a complete waste of time. A spare-no-inch mentality has every vehicle darting forward until they are physically unable to advance or, rarely, and existential threat (speeding car, merging bus) stops them in their tracks. The traffic is worse than anything I've... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 