Three Things: City Street Edition

There’s nothing like a bustling city street to make you feel like you’re a part of something bigger. Or at least make you feel as if you are there, watching life happen. Unless, of course, you’re in a detached mood: then maybe it makes you feel like life is passing you by. Or maybe it makes you feel lost, and small.

A city street, man. It can bring out a lot to write about. Here are three to get you going.

Balthus, Le passage du Commerce Saint-Andre, 1952-54. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

Bertha Lum, Theatre Street, Yokohama, 1905. Woodblock print.

28th Street Looking east from Second Avenue, New York City, on April 4, 1931. Photograph. NYC Municipal Archives.