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The Brooklyn Rail

Sept 2024

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Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian writes about culture and the environment and lives in Brooklyn.

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Sight Unseen

Wearing jeans, a black jacket and dark glasses, Victor Andrews comes barreling into the entrance hall of the Ryerson Towers apartment building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, delivered to the door by his school-bus attendant. He is a teenager well on his way to becoming a large man, his youth betrayed by the still-emerging beard sprouting on his full cheeks.
ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES