The Company You Keep

For our community, the pandemic was an inflection point in the latent sense of disconnection that had been simmering for a generation. We awoke from the fever dream of Covid to find that the city had transformed around us, offering no shortage of trendy spaces to photograph a perfect matcha latte or sip a $25 dirty martini. But amid this abundance ... See more

More than anything, though, people talked about what has been necessary for them to stay and build in any given place— namely, the love, support and welcoming embrace of fellow builders. I heard one tribute after another to the kind of people that make places-of-varying-degrees-of-bearability more bearable.