A place to rest in a bustling city is a quest that has always interested me. Reading this, I remembered a New York Times article from long ago that has always stuck with me: "Please, just a nice place to sit," Dec. 3, 1972, by William H. Whyte:(https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/03/archives/please-just-a-nice-place-to-sit.html?searchResultPosition=1). And as a lifelong New Yorker, I learned all kinds of things from this post: that our bus shelters and newsstands are provided by an advertising company and that there's such a things as grassroots street furniture. Thanks for another great essay.
I remember the older park benches in NYC with concrete supports that caused many a banged knee for kids who used it as an extension of the playground...
A place to rest in a bustling city is a quest that has always interested me. Reading this, I remembered a New York Times article from long ago that has always stuck with me: "Please, just a nice place to sit," Dec. 3, 1972, by William H. Whyte:(https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/03/archives/please-just-a-nice-place-to-sit.html?searchResultPosition=1). And as a lifelong New Yorker, I learned all kinds of things from this post: that our bus shelters and newsstands are provided by an advertising company and that there's such a things as grassroots street furniture. Thanks for another great essay.
I remember the older park benches in NYC with concrete supports that caused many a banged knee for kids who used it as an extension of the playground...
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