Keys and Locks

New York is a city of keys and locks. In this apartment in an old building, you can hear everything through walls and ceilings. The neighbor left this morning, a series of metallic scrapings of chain on metal, keys in locks, footsteps up concrete steps. Then Ivan left and came back to the same symphony. Meanwhile, car tires on slightly wet pavement and horns provide the background. A strange place, New York.