In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.
I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.
It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
When you look the wrong way to cross the street, you've got to be careful with it.
I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.
You know, I don't walk home alone at night. If I drive into our courtyard after dark, I ask my partner to come outside with the dog to meet me. Those are, you know, basic sort of urban precautions.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.
If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.
I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.
If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
