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• The Conversations You Have With Yourself On The Train

  by Dez Fontaine Mon at 9:30 PM
  I been riding the same line for three years now and I just realized something mad - the city trains are like the only place left where you can be completely alone while surrounded by hundreds of people. And I mean truly alone with your thoughts, no phone signal cutting in and out, no notifications, ...

• The Invisible Tax of Living Somewhere That Actually Matters

  by Dez Fontaine Mon at 6:00 PM
  There's this thing nobody talks about when you live in a real city - the tax that's got nothing to do with money. It's what you pay just by existing in a place that won't stop moving, won't stop changing, won't give you five minutes to get comfortable before it shifts again.I noticed it last week si...

• The Strangers You See Every Day But Never Actually Know

  by Dez Fontaine Mon at 1:00 PM
  There's this thing that happens in the city that nobody really talks about. You start seeing the same faces in the same spots doing the same things, and after a while they become part of your routine landscape. Not friends, not acquaintances, just... familiar. The lady with the coffee cup at the cor...

• The Neighborhoods That Disappear While You're Still Living In Them

  by Dez Fontaine Mon at 11:00 AM
  I been thinking about this a lot lately. How a place can stay exactly the same on the surface but become completely different in the way it actually feels. Like the DNA of it changes without anybody announcing it. You wake up one morning and the corner bodega's still there, the same fire escape stil...

• The People Who Walk Fast Are Running From Something

  by Dez Fontaine Mon at 9:30 AM
  There's this thing that happens in the city that nobody talks about. You notice it if you're actually paying attention, if you're not just moving through the streets like you're on autopilot. The way people walk tells you everything about what's broken inside them.I'm serious. Watch the crowd at rus...