title: I Speak of the City: Poems of New York
author:  Stephen Wolf 
description: A rich poetic hymnal to New York, with an excellent breadth of poets. (Natalie Whittle <i>Financial Times Weekend Magazine</i>)<br /><br />A wonderful series of snapshotsimpressions through verseof our city. (<i>New York Post</i>)<br /><br />[<i>I Speak of the City</i>] reminds jaded New Yorkers that some people can find poetry in the magnificent and the mundane. (Sam Roberts <i>New York Times</i>)
zlib_text: HUMANS OF NEW YORK
  MACMILLAN
  
  To Brian DeFiore,
  you’re a mensch.
  
  Contents
  About the Book
  Humans of New York: Stories
  
  Occasionally I’m invited to colleges and seminars to explain the story
  behind Humans of New York. I bring along a very amateurish PowerPoint
  presentation, which I’m constantly tweaking because I never quite know
  where to begin the story. That’s because Humans of New York did not
  result from a flash of inspiration. Instead, it grew from five years of
  experimenting, tinkering, and messing up. I always say that if I’d waited
  until I had the idea for Humans of New York, I’d never have begun Humans
  of New York.
  The simplest way to describe the development of HONY over the past five
  years is this: it’s evolved from a photography blog to a storytelling blog. In
  its early years, HONY represented an effort to photograph thousands of
  people on the streets of New York City—10,000, to be exact. But after
  cataloguing thousands of people, I stumbled upon the idea of including
  quotes