Publisher's Synopsis
William Meyers photographic predecessors worked almost entirely in Manhattan, but he worked in the other four boroughs - the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Most of his pictures were taken on anonymous streets where the people of the place live and go about their business - they represent, therefore, the quotidian, not the spectacular; they are the outer boroughs of the spirit as well as of the physical city. Each image represents a certain time in a certain part of the city where, he has found, even in unlikely neighbourhoods there are occasions for beauty.
