Since 2005, we've ended each year with a love letter to New York. This year, we're spotlighting the irreplaceable eccentrics who roam our streets. Photographs by Daniel Featherstone
Spotted at Sixth Avenue and 47th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone Being a New Yorker, probably more than being a resident of any other place on Earth, is a choice. Even if you are born here, you choose to stay — certainly, there are easier places to live. The rest of us have sought this place out, have moved across the Hudson or the world, for the opportunity to lose ourselves and become ourselves and, in the process, to take pleasure in the jostle of other people’s dreams.
Sands arrived in Harlem when she was 17 to attend Adelphi University. She was eager to escape South Carolina. One time when she was a girl, out picking cotton, she’d seen a plane fly overhead and wondered why her relatives only visited by train. She vowed that she would fly on a plane someday, a promise she has fulfilled many times over — currently, Sands has traveled to every continent except Antarctica.
Sometimes, when he goes back to Italy, people make fun of Americans and he laughs at them. “I’m American,” he says. He’s lived here almost 50 years. His family never wanted him to come, but it was the oldest story in the world. When he was 24, Mimmo met a girl. They were in Florence, and she came to learn Italian and he spoke no English.
Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone Seventh Avenue and 57th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone Lexington Avenue and 124th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone Lori Lewin, By Rumaan Alam Lori Lewin at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street. Photo: Daniel Featherstone The express bus was a miracle. People thought there was romance to the ferry because they’d heard that Carly Simon song.
He kept his silence until the bridge. “Beautiful day.” He said it like he was somehow responsible for it. Ever since her divorce three decades ago, she has been sleeping with much younger men, in their 20s and 30s. “The opposite of old is not young; the opposite of old is new.” That’s one of her many “Hattietudes”; another is to be “uninsultable. If you know you cannot be insulted, then why do you have to protect yourself?” To be open and vulnerable means dropping the masks we’ve hidden behind for so long. “With elderly people, I look into their eyes and I see the child they once were.
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