"2011 Must List"

--- Tom Hanks

Actor, Director, Writer, Producer

“Fantastic”
— Michael Calderone, The New York Observer

“Toni Schlesinger’s book describes this relationship of the accidental to the profound, the domestic to the totally weird; she visits, draws out and celebrates this permanent impermanence better than anyone ever has.”
— Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Angels In America
“What the photograph Weegee did for New York sixty years ago with his camera, Toni Schlesinger has done for twenty-first-century New York with her words. These portraits of Gotham's people caught in their habitats limn the city's spirit and essence as nothing else written in a long, long time. They are hypnotic reading.” — Nicholas Von Hoffman, columnist, The Nation, etc. author, Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
For more on Five Flights Up, read Jenny Davidson in The Believer.
"Toni Schlesinger is almost too desirable to be real." — Kenny Wisdom, Who Walk In Brooklyn