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IN THE MIDST OF THINGS In the Midst of T hings The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City Mike Owen Benediktsson PRINCE TON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCE­TON­AND­OXFORD Copyright © 2022 by Prince ton University Press Prince ton University Press is committed to the protection of copyright and the intellectual property our authors entrust to us. Copyright promotes the pro gress and integrity of knowledge. Thank you for supporting free speech and the global exchange of ideas by purchasing an authorized edition of this book. If you wish to reproduce or distribute any part of it in any form, please obtain permission. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to permissions@press . princeton . edu Published by Prince ton University Press 41 William Street, Prince ton, New Jersey 08540 99 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6JX press . princeton .e du All Rights Reserved ISBN: 978-0-691-17433-4 ISBN (e- book): 978-0-691-18906-2 British Library Cataloging- in-P ublication Data is available Editorial: Meagan Levinson and Jaqueline Delaney Production Editorial: Jenny Wolkowicki Jacket design: Chris Ferrante Production: Erin Suydam Publicity: Kate Hensley and Kathryn Stevens Copyeditor: Maia Vaswani Jacket art: Shutterstock / M. Unal Ozmen This book has been composed in Adobe Text Pro Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of Amer i ca 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Slevy CONTENTS Preface xi Introduction 1 PART I. APPEARANCE 21 1 The Public Lawn 23 2 The Folding Chair 55 PART II. DISRUPTION 91 3 The Traffic Divider 93 4 The Subway Door 120 PART III. DISAPPEARANCE 155 5 The Newsstand 157 Conclusion: The Bench 187 Acknowl edgments 207 Notes 211 Index 241 vii It is the structure of the city which first impresses us. . . . this vast organ ization which has arisen in response to the needs of its inhabitants, once formed . . . forms them, in turn, in accordance with the design and interests which it incorporates. —­ROBERT­PARK­(1915) We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us. —­WINSTON­CHURCHILL­(1943)

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