Urban Historian Gifts

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

London Pride 2012 and London Shame 2011.

Houndsditch- Humble Industries

"Darling, you remember all that mission oak on Central Park West."

Destitute Man with Child

Bloody Vandals

"Remember when it was 'The Dog and Duck'?"

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

Dick's hobby of collecting manhole covers kept him out of trouble... except of the hernias.

The Inventor of the Man Bun!

'See, Jimmy, as the population grows too dense, the rats begin to brutalize each other...'

'I see the rebranded mobile methadone project got underway.'

"I'm going to read a statement and then I'll take questions.''

Le Corbusier

'It's the council's flood defence system.'

Street: The Magazine for Homeless People

"This next one's a sad little number I call, 'I left my guitar on the F train.'"

"Still a freelance journalist?"

"This is nothing. You should have been with us last year at Fifty-third and Lex."

'The overtime comes in handy by...!?'

"... but this is Emily Dickinson and that's a car alarm!"

"We're moving to someplace called Ur. It's an entirely new concept in group living."

'Do you not have a dictionary?'

I Spoke Out On The Issues - Please Help.

"It was the cheapest way for us to cover the potholes."

After the death of New York City, Zeus placed it in the heavens as a constellation.

"That's the 'big apple' son...if you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere!"

The world's oldest braided rug

'Elm and Oak? The streets were named after trees that were here before the developers cut them down.'

Jo,the crossing-sweeper

"I hate these tower blocks. . ."

'They colorize old movies so I colorized your old photographs.'

'I gotta knock 'em all down, but don't worry, we're going to name all the streets after trees.'

Building an inferiority complex - debate over land use.

'In return for storing the nuclear waste, we get a big break on the mortgage.'