Outside Summer

Field notes from Carroll Gardens.

There’s a piece in Court Street Journal — Alexa Tietjen Dornagon’s excellent local Substack about my community— about the specific phenomenon of an outdoor New York summer. The kind where people are watching TV together on the sidewalk. The kind where a Knicks game is playing on the mounted screen at Luana’s and half the sidewalk is standing around watching it. The kind where the neighborhood becomes a shared living room