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@humansofny

Creator of the blog and #1 NYT bestselling book, Humans of New York. I take pictures of people on the street and ask them questions.

New York, NY
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Joined January 2011
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  1. 9 hours ago

    “I grew up in Spain right after the civil war. When I was eleven I was sent to a Catholic boarding school. They fed me and sheltered me."

    2 replies 231 retweets 801 likes
  2. 13 hours ago

    “I have Asperger’s, but I wasn’t diagnosed for a long time. I was a polite child. I found it easy to concentrate at school. I had..."

    10 replies 251 retweets 1,012 likes
  3. Mar 29

    “In twenty minutes I lost what I had been building for forty years. It happened while I was at work. My mother tried to turn on the..."

    4 replies 784 retweets 1,957 likes
  4. Mar 29

    “She keeps bringing home animals. I try to tell her that our house is too small for more pets. She keeps saying, ‘Our house is..."

    31 replies 815 retweets 2,393 likes
  5. Mar 29

    “I downsized my life to one large suitcase, and I’ve been traveling non-stop for seven years. Everyone’s happy. My ex-wife got the..."

    2 replies 354 retweets 1,312 likes
  6. Mar 29

    (2/2) “It’s very difficult to talk about adoption on the Internet. No matter what you say, somebody will say the opposite. We adopted..."

    1 reply 180 retweets 775 likes
  7. Mar 27

    One thing that makes me most proud of Humans of New York is the warmth of the comment section. There are exceptions of course, but...

    9 replies 211 retweets 1,144 likes
  8. Mar 27

    (3/3) “The doctors discovered a tumor on Mom’s spine in 2007. She spent four years being really sick. First she couldn’t walk. Then she..."

    4 replies 149 retweets 654 likes
  9. Mar 26

    (2/3) “One day I found a box of old love letters that my dad had written to my mom. They were romantic letters. They said nice things."

    7 replies 173 retweets 606 likes
  10. Mar 26

    (1/3) “In every sense she was the perfect mom. She always tried to encourage me when I was younger. I was really shy, so she always..."

    3 replies 276 retweets 815 likes
  11. Mar 25

    “The older my daughters get, the more indifferent they become towards me. They don’t call me. They don’t come see me. They don’t do..."

    30 replies 248 retweets 893 likes
  12. Mar 24

    Remember Adam telling me about this dream years ago. He's a brilliant guy and looking forward to watching him transform education.

    1:26
    Here's the video since many of you asked to watch it in your Twitter feed :)
    25 retweets 114 likes
  13. Mar 22

    "He gets emotional when he drinks. He starts crying every time an animal dies on the nature shows."

    24 replies 895 retweets 2,935 likes
  14. Mar 22

    “I came out at the age of twenty. I was trying to understand myself. It was a discovery time. I was thin and flexible. I loved to dance."

    14 replies 451 retweets 1,445 likes
  15. Mar 21

    “Our first house was destroyed by an earthquake in 1970. We barely made it out alive. We lost everything. I was only nineteen. He..."

    3 replies 246 retweets 1,270 likes
  16. Mar 20

    “The only time my mother spoke to us was when she was drunk. And she’d tell us we were unwanted. She convinced me to drink with her..."

    8 replies 218 retweets 702 likes
  17. Mar 20

    “My mother was the boss of the whole family. Everyone asked for her opinion on everything. She built this business from the ground up."

    3 replies 186 retweets 1,137 likes
  18. Mar 20

    “Being a grandfather is quite different. It’s much looser than being a parent. I don’t have to always worry about providing patterns..."

    389 retweets 1,812 likes
  19. Mar 19

    “One night I was talking with my wife about how perfect our life was. It was twenty-five years ago. We had four children. We’d just..."

    6 replies 1,298 retweets 3,276 likes
  20. Mar 19

    “I had to leave Venezuela. I’ve lived there my entire life. My parents are buried there. But five months ago I had to leave. It..."

    8 replies 336 retweets 858 likes

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