Neighborhood Adventurer Mugs

'Mom, I said if you want to live in this neighbourhood, keep a weapon at your disposal.'

'Mom won't let me cross the street, but I Google Earthed it once.'

"Enough with how great the public schools are. Just tell us – is there a Trader Joe’s nearby?"

"Tommy!"

The inhabitants of the jungle get tied up in rush hour traffic.

Welcome To New York City...Subject to the following conditions.

"You've got those Stuck-in-the-Subway-Listening-to-a-Guy-Massacre-Dylan Blues."

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

Serenading

"Yuppies! There goes the hood!"

Push for Disco...

"I'm starting my own movement—Occupy Fifty-Seventh Street."

The stages of gentrification: a guide

"How do you know you don't like New York if you've never even tasted it?"

"Hey, I just consider myself very fortunate to be getting paid for something I'd be doing anyway."

New York Netherworld

Stork and baby discover scarecrows

"I'll be a bit late... sorry."

'Follow that cab!'

Entering Megalopolis - next Bucolic area 162 miles.

'He's great, he can even fetch the paper. Off the neighbour's step.'

"Everybody on the bus today was played by Anthony Hopkins."

Vacation Bus Photo

'Whoa! This was supposed to be an easy merit badge!'

Giant gorilla peers at female victim. She says into cellphone: "I can't talk now, he's right here."

"I told you we'd be better off taking Canal."

Thumbing a Lift.

Manhattan Cat atop the Flatiron Building

Things that go beep in the night.

"Well, do you want to buy this sofa or not? You've been on it for three days!"

"If the universe is expanding, that's all the more reason to get back to the city."

Hoxton map.

'We're very tight on space right now but we'll have you in an office as soon as we can. Meanwhile. . .'