Twelve stories about building something of your own in a city that does not forgive hesitation.
The fall issue took shape around a single question that kept surfacing in unrelated interviews: what does it actually cost to build something of your own here.
Twelve stories, one cover, photographed across two days in Manhattan. This is how it came together.
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