Greetings readers,

It has been a profound autumn season. As we enter these colder winter months, I wanted to reflect on recent events. In this volume of The Utrecht Pigeon, I am sharing some scenes I've encountered around Bensonhurst through the lens of poetry and photography.

Desolate, wintry street corners, neglected fence poles, discarded books – this is a display of the rogue oddities that have grown out of vacancy, and the art that has emerged with them; it asks you to think about our urban environment as one of constant flux, where decadence not only occurs alongside renewal, but is often its incubator.

~ Michael O'Hare, Editor-in-Chief