New Yorkers

Sally Davies is a street photographer whose works are in the Museum of the City of New York and the NYC 9/11 Memorial Museum. She is the author of the acclaimed McDonalds Happy Meal project (1.5 million online hits) and her archive is part of the Downtown Collection of Fales Library at NYU. She took Allen Ginsberg's old apartment when she moved from Canada to New York in 1983, and she still lives in the East Village with her dog Bun. She is also the author of California Dreamers, published by Ammonite Press.

Diversity, eccentricity and humanity are all found in abundance... Regardless of whether or not you’ve been to New York yourself, there’s something to enjoy here. It’s a city which seems to have embedded itself in our global cultural consciousness, so there’s every chance you may feel you recognise some of the characters here anyway... a fascinating study.

• Asher Lack 2Foreword 6Bruno and Maylis Dayan 7Introduction 8Jack Smead 9Suzanne Mallouk 12Claire and Garland Jeffreys 14Laurie Anderson 16Lois Walden and Margot Harley 18Michael Musto 20Jacquie Tellalian 22Carlos “Fos” Franco 24Sylvia Parker Maier 26Charlie Romanofsky 28Karol Jackowski 30Marina Press Granger 32Sam Swope and Jim Tryforos 34Linda Simpson 36Liz Duffy Adams 38Tom Birchard 40Theresa Buchicchio 42Delphine Blue 44Pamela Lubell 46Mitchel Bayer and Bea Winkler Bayer 48Vicky Roman 50Noah Becker 52Bijou Clinger 54Jen Poe 56Rachid Alsataf 58Bara and Roger de Cabrol 60Frances Pilot 62Will Davis 64Ben Mindich and Montgomery Frazier 66Jackie Ferrara 68Mehai Bakaty 70Janet Halpin 72Allan Tannenbaum 74Bruce Mazer 76Dolores Kestler 78Cherie Nutting 80Steven Hammel 82Steven Salzman and Ellen Kahn 84Buddy Papaleo 86X Baczewski 88Kate Maxwell 90Eric Ambel 92Fred Brown and Claire Flack 94Rick Prol 96Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz 98Meta Hillmann 100James Hammond 102Stuart Zamsky and Kim Wurster 104Maria Heredia 106Michael McMahon 108Michael Riedel 110Penny Arcade 112Frank Andrews 114Flloyd NYC 116Jewel Weiss 118Matthew Hittinger and Michael Ernest Sweet 120Sur Rodney (Sur) 122Betty Tompkins 124Beatrice Moritz 126Ed McGowan and Claudia DeMonte 128Gerald DeCock 130Linda Heidinger 132James Kaston 132Charlene McPherson 136Lynne Burns 138Angela Fremont and Harold Appel 140William Ivey Long 142Gracie Mansion 144Benny Hansen and Malan Liborio Dos Reis 146Iris Rose 148Matt Weber 150Cressa Turner 152Gillian McCain and Jim Marshall 154Danny Fields 156Sally Davies 158Acknowledgements 160