SEEING THE CITY: 2025

169th Street in Jamaica holds a very special place in my heart for the simple fact that the general area surrounding it has just about...

Image of Chinatown arcade, 8 Mott St, New York To truly experience a city like New York, one must venture far past the imagery presented...

Washington DC is filled with history. There is no doubt about that. As a frequent location for school trips or family vacations, DC is...

I have lived in Chicago all of my life. Chicago is a city with an abundance of culture. Whether it’s the food, the art, or the music the...

Their NYC vs my NYC NYC: Time Square. Flashing lights. Living a luxurious life. A bunch of people that are all rude and stuck up. A city...

Whenever I visit a new town or city, I immediately begin to map out the streets and transit. I’ve always done this, ever since I was...

La Ciudad de Santiago de Los Caballeros, La República Dominicana. The city of Santiago is what I call home because of how in alignment I...

Though I’ve lived in New York for my entire life, I’ve yet to see a Broadway show or watch the sunset on an observation deck a thousand...

Every weekend, my dad would take me and my two younger brothers to ride our scooters a few blocks away to the local park in which he’d...

I always think about the fact that when people ask me where I am from, I say Boston, but really, I’m from Cambridge. I have uniquely...

Whenever I am asked to describe what Toronto feels like, I always respond as follows: it’s a big city without the big city feel. Toronto...

“Stay calm,” I told myself. I stood frozen with my three friends in the middle of the sidewalk. It was like any other regular day after...

Just thirty minutes north of the bustling of Atlanta sits the quaint suburb of Marietta. Everything here is within driving distance—I...

A painting of the journey to Uptown New Orleans. (Terrance Osborn) I remember moving to New Orleans, Louisiana [NOLA] at six. My family...

As a child, New York City was the place my parents would take me for pure pleasure and excitement. From Broadway to baseball games, New...

Ironically, as a person who has not tried a single cigarette, my hometown shapes like a tobacco pipe. Taichung City, Taiwan, raised me...

I love walking. I also grew up in New York City. In order to love New York you gotta love walking. The first time I ever got freedom was...

It’s not a city. It’s not even a town. But the tiny hamlet of Verplanck seemed massive to me as a kid growing up in Westchester County,...

Growing up in a suburban town two miles away from Newark, I’ve had my fair share of time in “The Brick City”. Newark is referred to as...

^ View of Portland from Pittock Mansion, Facing East Growing up in Portland, I don’t feel like I really started to develop a sense of...