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As an engineer at Khan Academy it feels pretty awesome to find this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...

Pretty awe-some. Inspiring, motivating.

Incredibly inspiring!

Before opening comments I bet myself the word "awesome" will be used )

As a supporter of the Red Cross movement, I also feel proud.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/32016876047/the-boxer

Great story. Greatly written too.

Jesus. I should appreciate my good fortune in life more.

Great story, but also shows how terrific Brandon is at drawing people's stories out.

Do you know the name the subject boxed as? I was able to find the myspace with his real name, but cannot find anything on his boxing record.

Does he record his conversations? That's a lot to remember.

To be honest I hardly find HONY anywhere near "inspiring" or "warm". IMO 80% of the stories are sad or filled with confusion and pessimism. The people he meets is one thing, but the tone of the story is set by the writer himself. I feel he is somehow intentionally making them melodramatic and sad. This I really dislike.

And there exist so many "love of the life" stories which on the first sight might seem sad but upon further inspection feel totally dubious. I always think the so-called "love of your life" stuff is just an invented escapism. When some people meet difficulties in their lives they immediately imagine something "perfect but out of reach" as a consolation of sorts. If they really got together with their so-called "love of life" then probably their lives will turn out to be as problematic. Not to mention how much both would have changed and out of sync when they meet each other again. This is totally irrational thinking. Better dispose of it.

I love HoNY, but it's been around for ages — the Facebook page has almost 2 million likes. I'm curious why it's hitting HN now.

That's not an angry "BOO! REPOST!" complaint, I'm actually curious. All of my friends have been familiar with it for years, but maybe it's just a New York thing?

No, I've never seen this. It's incredible. So glad to find it. I'm not on Facebook so I wouldn't have found it there, and live pretty far from NYC.

I personally have never seen it before and am glad that it was posted here.

Big fan of HONY. Here's a short news segment on HoNY on ABC News that's worth watching: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/humans-york-photog-vir...

It was interesting for a few seconds, but then my eyes skipped to the bottom of the page.

Is the "Pinterest layout" being copied because there is something inherently good about it? It does not seem good to me. My eyes don't fix on anything. Nothing lines up.

I like it in this context. It's scattershot, it doesn't imply any rank of importance, nor any order you should be looking in.

They're just people in a crowd, you don't have to read their stories in order. You don't have to read all of them. Just look at whatever your eyes are drawn to and read those.

Oddly enough, I feel like the Pinterest/masonry layout is perfect for something like this.

Is there an "about" page? It's awesome, but I couldn't work out if this was crowd-sourced, one person's art project, or something else. <edit> I'm an idiot. It's right there in front of me... never mind!

This is pretty amazing. If only Facebook were this instead.

It can be if you want it to; sometimes I like to explore everyone with a particular name. There are Alex Guerras all over the world...

I remember reading this particular story 30 something years ago. Probably in Reader's Digest. I guess he also read it and made it his own. I hope it wasn't a thing back then. http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65933750954/my-first-mem...

Probably a false memory.

I am pretty sure....Here there is a similar story. http://susanpiver.com/2007/11/06/stories-ive-been-told/ , and there is anotherone here...http://www.topquartile.org/?page=BOK_Trust_Integrity or this one...http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-108...

I've seen this concept done for a few cities now. They all use the 'Humans of x' name but I'm not sure they're related.

I think HONY was the one that started this all.

The Sartorialist predates HoNY, but he specialized in people on the street with great fashion sense.

So if we're going in that direction (documenting people on the street,) Bill Cunningham probably predates them all.

Eugène Atget is probably worth reading about if you're into the history of street photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget

To be honest I hardly find HONY anywhere near "inspiring" or "warm". IMO 80% of the stories are sad or filled with confusion and pessimism. The people he meets is one thing, but the tone of the story is set by the writer himself. I feel he is somehow intentionally making them melodramatic and sad. This I really dislike.

The book (http://www.amazon.com/Humans-New-York-Brandon-Stanton/dp/125...) is currently in spot 28 on Amazon's best seller list.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65691473318/like-many-pe...

Here's a portland take on HONY if anyone is interested: http://humansofpdx.com/

Every story associated with the pic is simply human :)

This is just lovely

Best read today.

People who live in New York are already smug enough without needing their own blog. It'd be better to have done it in a more underprivileged city.

Dripping with that ol' pretentious pseudointellectual manhattan vibe.

Granite, concrete, or Central Park. Take your pick.

Why are you so angry at the world?

Why do you confuse being angry at something you like as being angry at everything?

Humans of New York