Update, it’s Division Street, lower Manhattan. Swoon writes, “That piece on cortland alley is a kind of a tribute to all of new york city, i was down in the lower east side, chinatown area one day and a friend was explaining the density of tenement life at the turn of the century, and the crowded streets and the noise, in lot’s of vivid imagery, and then i went into this diner and it had a picture of a thronging street with that poem from the base of the statue of liberty which i had never paid a bit of attention to, those lines about your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. i felt like such a sap but i thought about those words all week that week as i walked around and looked at things. if you look at the top of the image i tried to make something temple-like and sheltering which these hourdes are pouring in or out of.