City in Slang, The principles Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Cóndor

Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Cóndor Pasa" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings

Taking as it's inspiration the 40 year career of international human rights advocate Philip Alston

or at least are not known to do so

often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West

City in Slang, The principles Poncho-clad musicians playing "El CóndorThe American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter and egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took