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    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
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    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
A narrow lit up scence on the sidewalk of people playing, walking their dogs, sitting down with their dogs, and shadows as the sun beams on the pavement.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
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A side of a storefront. On the left is a fancy clothing store, while the brick wall and garage door to the right is covered in colorful graffiti, with the words “Gentrify This” in the center of the art.

Urban Excursions in the Gentrifying City

Washington Square Arch from underneath.

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