HUMANS OF NEW YORK - STORIES

I pre-ordered this months ago, and then forgot about it. What a happy surprise to find it waiting in my mailbox on release day, full of faces and stories to be discovered. Backstory: Brandon Stanton quit his day job to photograph and interview New Yorkers, and since then has been sharing the results with his 15+ million followers on his Humans of New York blog. This book includes highlights of these images and conversations. HONY amazes me because it reminds us: it’s not all about you. The people we interact with every day have their own joys, sorrows, struggles, vitories and passions that they may be experiencing. It’s a message that applies anywhere - just more dramatically and colorfully in New York.

For this post I made - what else? - hot dogs. I would say they ranked somewhere between the dogs at Nathan’s on Coney Island and Yankees Stadium. Not bad for a suburban grilled special.