SEEING THE CITY: 2024

To celebrate my grandparent's 45th anniversary, my family traveled to Italy. My grandparents wanted to return to their homeland to visit...

Palm trees Spectrum Center, Irvine, CA It is crazy how every time I mention this word, there is an instant connection pointing to...

As I drove along the highway on the outskirts of Doha, I noticed a huge billboard with a simple English message that stood out among the...

You want your Mamma Mia summer. It’s more convenient to stay on the mainland, so you take a commercial cruise along the southern coast....

Just like the rest of Westchester County dwellers, I have the tendency to frame my hometown by its distance from New York City. When I...

With both a mother and a grandmother from former Yugoslavia, the latter of which lives in Sarajevo, I have visited the city practically...

Socony-Mobil Building, East Midtown, Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956 Courtesy Ken Grant Growing up in a small suburb only twenty minutes away...

Mbarara is my hometown. I was born and raised in Mbarara until the age of 15 years. It is the second largest city in Uganda, after...

After a multi-hour delayed takeoff from New York City to London, sprinting with minutes to spare to the transfer bus in London that would...

Photo of Cumberland Park, near Broadway, taken by me in April 2018. This photo features the “Batman Building”: an AT&T office building...

You can see the bridge from my house, towering over the rest of the townhouses. I like to say that I’m technically from both Brooklyn and...

Seattle. For most people - it's a temporary city. You graduate with a degree in business, CS, or engineering and come to the PNW with a...

Driving up the 101 Highway, I feel comforted by the familiar salty smell in the air, the bright blue sky and sea, and the heat of the...

Last weekend, having caught the flu, I suddenly felt homesick. It was the first time I had truly felt homesick since leaving for college....

As a resident of rural Ulster Park, NY, the New York City metropolis is both strikingly distant and strangely close. I live on a dead-end...

I came from a city in Florida announced as St. Petersburg, which is also known by "The Burg" or "727"(Area code). My city isn’t too...

Eldred Street, Highland Park; From California by Choice Los Angeles is an unconventional city. If Europe produced cities as hulking...

15 minutes south of San Francisco lies my home, where I have lived for the past 18 years of my life. It’s a suburb full of warm summer...

In the past five years, I studied in Shanghai, California, and now Ithaca, but I spent my first 16 years in Jiaxing, where I would call...

I have lived in Piscataway, New Jersey for most of my life. My family moved there when I was 5, purchasing our first house after living...