Etai AApr 811 minA Love Letter to BreathDear Breath, Recently, as I was meditating beneath a cherry blossom in an East Village community garden, I decided that you deserve a...
Etai AMar 2813 minTidal Transformation: The Story of My Teenage Arrest​​Before 1968, the land on which I got arrested at age fourteen was not land at all. These coordinates, once slightly offshore from the...
Etai AMar 189 minFrom Landfill to Luxury: The Real Estate Development that Transformed Battery Park City from an Artists’ Escape into an Upper-Class EnclaveI grew up in a small neighborhood of Lower Manhattan called Battery Park City. In this essay, I explain the journey this small patch of...