February 16, 2026

New York is a mess but what a tragedy it would be to clean it up. The slow melt from this year’s storm has exposed how objectively disgusting New York City can be, but how clean do we actually want it to be?

Somewhere between having to skip around dog shit on the avenues, and being too clean for someone to feel like writing “smooth Wheel” on a door would be an improvement is where I want to be.