"In New York, because we live so much of our life in public and the sidewalk plays such a role in our perception of the city, busy street corners demarcate territory in a way that may be much more significant than in other cities," said Philip Kasinitz, a professor of sociology at Hunter College who specializes in immigration issues.
You see them strolling with their young children on the sidewalks, playing with them in the parks and dropping them off at school.
Minutes away from where Google developers work, young Japanese perch on sidewalks, playing with their Web-enabled cellphones, thumbs flying and eyes glued to the tiny screens.
A sidewalk musician plays the flute.
BUT, I would love to ride more around my house, and to do that, you either have to ride on the sidewalk or play chicken with cars.
"Someone would go by and say, 'Damn, these people really care for our soldiers".' On this weekday evening, Ms. Mercado's younger children, Crystal and Nesito, ran up and down the sidewalk with neighbors, playing hide-and-seek and ghost in the graveyard.
On Wednesday morning in Englewood, a struggling neighborhood on the city's South Side, groups of teenagers stood on street corners and outside convenience stores, as children rode bikes down sidewalks and played games in the park.
And the earliest pictures in the historical society exhibition are shots of people going about their lives on Harlem sidewalks: black children playing with white Barbies on a stoop, a nervous wedding party gathered in front of a church.
They waylaid him on the sidewalk, the way Nicolas Cage, playing the troubled screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, waylaid Brian Cox, playing Robert McKee, in Spike Jonze's 2002 film, "Adaptation".
On the sidewalk, four men were playing dominoes at a bowlegged table, and the clack, clack of the tiles sounded like the tapping of footsteps on the street.
