Now those who still choose to feed the birds, once a common pastime, are, as Mooallem's article points out, deemed "crazy" or "marginal" city inhabitants; and, as cities criminalize this activity, they may come to be viewed as legal deviants as well.
A planned incinerator in Plymouth will be a notable ballot box issue in a marginal city council ward, Plymouth St Budeaux voters and candidates say.
It can take more than two hours to drive a couple of miles along the Marginal, the city's palm-lined coastal road.
In the inner-city marginal seat of Brisbane, the LNP increased their vote by 1.7%.
While Greens how-to-votes will have a minimal impact on the election, Liberal preferences could have a huge impact in Labor/Green inner-city marginal seats.
These collectors were also instrumental in bringing Art Basel to Miami Beach, recognizing that it could catapult Miami from a marginal regional art city to a maturing one.
Labor benefited from Liberal preferences in inner-city marginal seats in 2013, and will be hoping to increase the pressure on the Liberal party to not preference the Greens, while simultaneously tarring the Greens as working with the Liberals.
There are, of course, Basque cultural organisations in the city, such as Harrobia Bilbao, a performing arts group established in a former church in the Otxarkoaga area in 2011, but their presence feels surprisingly marginal in a city that is supposed to be at the heart of Basque culture.
Like Mr. de Blasio, John C. Liu, the city comptroller, has proposed raising the city's marginal income tax to pay for after-school programs, among other things.
It will first offer television broadcasters an opportunity to sell their rights to a crucial portion of the spectrum, hoping that many of the marginal channels in big cities offering reruns of "I Love Lucy" and "Hawaii Five-O" will welcome the opportunity to cash out.
