Urban Survivor Gifts

'Goddamn traffic...I'm late for my meditation class.'

Generation Rend. Young man rending his garments in anguish at extortionate rents.

'I simply don't understand the requirement to pay people more just to live in London!'

Dehydrated man in desert finds a fire hydrant

Man working out with gas mask on.

Appointment for Central London Executive - With Car and Parking Space

'...So while everybody was distracted by my bouncing checks, I slipped out of town.'

"I just want to learn enough to be able to survive the train to work."

Subway Stress.

The last man standing in the murder capital of the world.

"Could you go back to the front desk? The receptionist has some forms for you to fill out."

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

Commutobile

"My dream is to have a little house and a white picket fence wired with explosives."

"The trees are laughing at us."

'This is Martins, the office I was telling you about. She's got a real knack for texting people down from window ledges!'

"This city is becoming unlivable."

"I'm thinking of leaving these crowded condos and going to a place that's been deserted for years...the mall."

75 Years: The Commemorative Issues

"It just seems to me, Howard, that you're missing the whole point of having a terrace in the city."

"Physically I'm in New York, Emotionally. . .I'm somewhere in the south of Florida."

Spinner luggage is fast becoming the city walker's, walking companion of choice. There's no stopping, no mess, nor butt sniffing, with the added bonus that it comes with you when you go on holidays. . ."

Building in the countryside

"Occupant, apartment 5C: Congratulations—you may already have won the all-electric Colonial split-level house of your dreams...."

Nativity Scene on the Underground

"Ever seen anything like it? No high rise condos to obstruct the view, no acres of parking lots, no traffic. What a waste."

"My neighborhood is getting too noisy. Traffic, screaming kids, barking dogs … I'm used to living in quiet desperation."

Next Train - Can you all come back tomorrow?

Grim Reaper walks through an urban environment wearing a gas mask.

'Smog, pollen, acid-rain, holes in the ozone-layer, crime, road rage, terrorists - HERE I COME!'

City Hammock

Rural Cityscape

'I'm looking for a romantic tale of wild, unbridled passion I can read while being pushed and groped on the subway.'

Rashomon of West 84th Street

Wilderness - City.