I’ve said it here before, but it bears repeating, I love to walk. Especially in a new city. And in the summer of 1996, New York was a new town for me and my camera. So often I’d get caught up in how much was above me. The sheer size of this city that exists above our heads is overwhelming. But more often than not, what makes this place so incredibly amazing are the people who are walking along side you. Fortunately in my doe-eyed wonder at being in the Apple for the first time, and gazing skyward at all the scrapers, I never bumped into any of the city’s inhabitants.
However, I did manage to look down every so often at the right time to witness the beauty and diversity of the population, summed up here in the best way I could manage. Granted, in a 125th of a second it’s hard to get a definitive read on a person, let alone two, but I think there are enough visual clues to start putting together a list of what makes them as different as night and day.
