Shanna Swendson: Fairy Tales for Modern Times

This costume shop (with a magic shop next door) in the East Village helps Katie rationalize the weird things she sees around town.

Katie and her friends live in an apartment in a building like one in this row of old tenements on Fourteenth Street. I'm not sure exactly where their building is in the general Fourteenth and Third area, but I probably won't pinpoint it much closer than that. That leaves me with more flexibility.