“What the photographer Weegee did for New York sixty years ago with his camera, Toni Schlesinger has done for twenty-first-century New York with her words. These portraits of Gotham’s people caught in their habitats limn the city’s spirit and essence as nothing else written in a long, long time. They are hypnotic reading.”
“Toni Schlesinger’s book describes the relationship of the accidental to the profound, the domestic to the totally weird; she visits, draws out, and celebrates this permanent impermanence better than anyone ever has. The book is so funny, so rich, so full of wonderful surprises—the people you know and the people you wish you knew and the people you never want to know, each one in her/his box, and all jumbled together, like New York City itself.”