He stared into the streets and thought — bitterly, but also with a chilling, stunned sobriety — that, though he had been seeing them so long, perhaps he had never known them at all.
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Words from “Another Country” by James Baldwin, 1962.
Photos by Rick Stachura. View of Manhattan from Astoria, Queens. 432 Park Avenue on the right. February 2, 2019.