A View of the World’s Greatest City (New York)

Not the one the Mayor would like you to see

William Mersey
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readMay 2, 2024

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The Doordash app on my phone read $19. Pick up at Momofuku Noodle, my favorite restaurant to dash from, and deliver to a customer in Chelsea, a nearby neighborhood. I hit “accept” and hit the road.

When I finished that delivery, the phone pinged again almost instantly with another from a…

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William Mersey
ILLUMINATION

Daily Beast, NY Daily News, Daily Mail, Independent contributor. Old/jaded cynic. Can't code/don't want to know how. Hate artificial stupidity. Call don't text.