City smells provide an insight into the make-up of a neighborhood; the smells indicating a “meshwork of entangled lines of life, growth and movement” mingle as a “texture of interwoven threads” Ingold, 2010).

Thresholds explores the doorways, portals and spaces between the street and building interiors. There are distinct “street smells”, specific “store smells”, and a range of “shared smells” that belong neither inside nor outside – a warm wood, green leafy volatiles of the floristry stores, shared bakery aromas crossing an imaginary divide of a large serving-hatch open window. The strongest smells were old fish on W 10th, watermelon / strawberry in the Scandinavian candy store on Christopher, intense leather and rubber from the fetish shop. The richest combination of smells were located on street corners where humans, activity and winds intersect.

This map forms part of a series of New York City block maps completed over a number of years.