On a stroll through the West Village last summer, a small group of New Yorkers brought together by a shared sense of wonder and curiosity looked down. Yellow paint lined a grate — a virtually Pantone-perfect color match for the sneakers worn by one attendee and the sandals worn by another.

It wasn’t a big deal, just a little moment, a minor curiosity — a coincidence. And it’s exactly the sort of reason the members of the Association Association began coming together for monthly meetups and strolls through the boroughs a few months earlier. With a keen eye for detail, they look for and revel in the tiny connections most of us miss in our day-to-day lives.

“I was interested in finding  the kind of people who would want to go explore new parts of the city and look at the world in slightly

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