Urban Realist Gifts

Beggar holding a sign that reads 'My beggar's license fee is due soon.'

"Please, no gift cards."

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"I thought we agreed you weren't going to work at home."

"I got 30 likes but Mom's was not one of them."

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

"See? And you said you couldn't work from home."

Wifi in Hell

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

"As I understand it, after this scaffolding comes down the city will be done."

#Whyneighborsdon'tknowtheirneighbors

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

"Why do they call it rush hour when no one goes anywhere?"

No Immediate Danger

"Did you remember to take the trash in?"

"My monthly screen time went up from 62 hours to ‘Holy #@!*’."

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

"We'll destroy it to the ground ... ...and then..."

A man is living in small box apartment trying to read a book, but is surrounded by people engaging in noisy activities.

Packed like sardines

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

“It's $195 million. Now, I know what you're thinking: 'OK, what's the catch?'”

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

"Manhatten Brooklyn Hoboken Long Island"

'Darn those neighbors. A cookie's missing.'

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

Is Driving Doomed?

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

"Right now it's between you and two hundred and fifty other people who came to Seattle, moved in with five roommates, joined a band, took a job in a coffee bar, got fed up, had a meeting with themselves, and decided it was time to go out and find a real job."

"Love the bag, Stell! Very career."

"I thought we'd eat out on the patio for a change."

"The dangers of texting while walking #17"

Fish-tank Skyscraper.

Through Traffic Keep Left/We're Through Traffic Keep Right

"I can hear Brooklyn becoming played out."