The fabric of the city. The city is fascinating—perverse, complex, sometimes maddening, sometimes startlingly beautiful, full of the middles of stories whose beginnings and ends... [Making Light]
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has posted a long but fun essay about the "passionate fannish interests" that a city like New York sparks. Full--I mean full--of links to all sorts of New York geekery, her essay makes a good jumping-off point for armchair-exploring hidden or forgotten sections of the city.