Many people travel to New York City to gaze at its crammed-in-grandeur, its burlesque brownstones, and big bronze statues [with good reason!], but I’m afraid very few people take much time during visits to really consider what truly composes a city: its People. And I only have grounds to assume such a thing because I myself have been guilty.

This time to Manhattan, I decided while on the plane [not unrelated: say "no" to Airtran] that I would abstain from photographs of buildings, monuments, and other things resulting from the handiwork of persons, and more of the very persons themselves. A city is its humans more than it is simply a place where they dwell.

My purpose here was to document the vast variety of people and the socio-cultural interchange [and the noticeable proclivity towards individualism], hoping to show how each piece fits into a huge, complexly beautiful whole. What is obvious to me is that that whole still begs to be made Whole.

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