The Seventeen Year Guest

The cicada surfaced on Staten Island after seventeen years underground to find the block changed and the maple still there. Its first song rattled the porch screens with news from another decade

OPEN THE RECORDON THE ATLASHANG IT IN THE MUSEUMGET COUNTED

Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.