NEWYORKERY
A publishing house, a shop counter and a working index of New York.
We print field guides, fold maps, keep the signage archive and sell a small number of objects made from the city's own palette. Nothing here is styled to look like New York — it is measured from it.
No.03 · In print
The counter · eight objects
Atlas · Sheet 03 / 24
THE CITY
IS THE
COLLECTION.
Every guide, map, card and object we make is a record of something already standing: a counter, a cornice, a lock, a bathroom door that works. We do not invent the city. We catalogue it and hand the catalogue back.
- Counters & Coffee212
- Public Bathrooms31
- Late Kitchens138
- Hardware & Locksmiths94
Current Guides
Saddle stitched · newsprint & uncoated · corrected annually
Fourteen counters, windows and back rooms still working after the produce crates go in.
Thirty-one doors that open, lock, and have soap. Rated on four axes. Deadly serious.
Cornices, water towers, fire escapes and terracotta faces nobody photographs.
How to order, what to order, what a bacon-egg-and-cheese should cost, and forty counters that get it right.
One borough, nineteen neighborhoods, fifty-eight institutions that have outlasted three rezonings.
The whole city, four inks, no advertising, no landmarks, no attractions. Folds to pocket.
The Objects
Shop the counter
16oz natural cotton canvas, black screen print
Washed cotton twill, embroidered wordmark
7.5oz combed cotton, garment dyed black
Glazed stoneware, blue and white
Stamped brass, taxi yellow enamel
Insulated steel, matte black powder coat
Sewn softcover, 5mm grid, 96pp
Letterpress, 300gsm board, 40 cards
Street Language
Signage archive · 1,204 entries
Coffee, regular
$1.75
Milk, two sugars
Lost Cat · Ludlow St
Answers to nothing
Notice
- Rent stabilized
- Do not remove
- NYC · 1974
NEWYORKERY · COUNTER 01
| No.03 Deli Handbook | 12.00 |
| Field Notebook | 16.00 |
| 212 Key Tag | 18.00 |
TOTAL 46.00
NO REFUNDS ON PAPER GOODS
Keys Cut While U Wait
Locksmith · Est. 1961
One room.
One counter.
Every title
we print.
456 Elizabeth Street. A black awning, a wooden floor and three shelves of printed matter. Guides come off the press and onto the counter — nothing is stocked anywhere else first.
- Address
- 456 Elizabeth St, NY
- Hours
- Daily 7A–8P
- Counter
- Guides, maps, objects, coffee
- Cash
- Always. Cards, usually.
The Index
All neighborhoods- Lower East SideTenement grid, late kitchens, loud sidewalks.MN-03
- ChinatownProduce crates by six, tea by ten.MN-02
- HarlemBrownstone rows, wide avenues, church bells.MN-10
- GreenpointPolish bakeries, boatyards, low sky.BK-01
- Sunset ParkTwo main streets, one hill, best view south.BK-07
- Bed-StuyCornice census, stoop economy.BK-04
The Journal
All entriesThe Bathroom Question
Why the most useful guide we publish is the one nobody admits to owning.
Field NoteAbove The Fourth Floor
Terracotta faces, water towers and the cornices nobody photographs.
ReportChinatown After 10 PM
The second shift: what opens when the produce crates go in.
EssayThe Control Sandwich
Forty counters, one order, four dollars fifty to seven dollars.
MethodALL THINGS NEW YORK.