A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

83 pointsposted 3 days ago
by prismatic
(newyorker.com)

9 Comments

DicIfTEx

3 days ago

Somewhat related: A Burglar's Guide to the City https://burglarsguide.com/ looking at urban architecture from the perspective of someone who doesn't use windows the way they're intended

cam_l

3 days ago

Cool, made me think of Tschumi's manhattan transcripts, but I see he actually interviewed Tschumi in this book. And I also realise I used to read this guy's blog, crazy to see it is still active ~20 years later.

dgacmu

3 days ago

Funny that it's in the new yorker - they had a great video of Apollo Robbins about 13 years ago demonstrating some pickpocketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUSO_Mj1TQ

pimlottc

3 days ago

This article links to their early piece on Apollo Robbins in the first paragraph

dgacmu

3 days ago

It does, but the video is later than their original profile and not linked, and I thought it was interesting actually seeing him in action. It's one of the higher quality videos of him.

snvzz

3 days ago

Crazy idea: Putting them in Prison, so that the rest of us can live in peace.

AngryData

2 days ago

Because certainly nobody has tried that before!