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OBJECTS OF NEW YORK
Artifacts of movement, memory, and defiance.
Cities are understood through what they leave behind.
These objects are not souvenirs. They are fragments of force, transit, and remembrance — physical traces of moments the city refused to forget.
CHAPTER 1
DEFIANCE
Objects that hold their ground — quiet monuments to resistance, resolve, and the city's refusal to yield.
CHAPTER 2
MEMORY
Objects kept not for what they are — but for what they refuse to let disappear.
TWIN TOWERS MEMORIAL MODEL
The skyline once defined by symmetry. This miniature holds a memory of absence — and the weight of what replaced it. In New York, remembrance is architectural: built into streets, sightlines, and silence between towers.
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METROCARD MAGNET
A commuter's relic — the kind of object that lived in pockets, turnstiles, and the logic of everyday routes. Now it sits still, pinned to a surface, reminding you how much of the city is learned by repetition. Memory here is practical: numbers, swipes, and where you were headed.
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SUBWAY TOKEN COLLECTIBLE
Before cards and screens, entry was metal — paid with something you could feel. This token is small, but it carries the intimacy of old New York: the sound of coin trays, the click at the gate, the quiet certainty of a route you knew by heart.
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SILVER CITYSCAPE SNOW GLOBE
The city, suspended — held under glass like a thought you return to when the noise is gone. Shake it and the skyline becomes weather, a soft storm you can control. In miniature, New York feels distant and close at once: a place you carry, not a place you finish.
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MOVEMENT
Everyday transit artifacts — designed to move, signal, carry, repeat.
