Some friends of Chang’s ran an indie record label, and they started putting up stickers and posters around town. She was working at theNew York Times at the time, and she started slapping moustache stickers on the faces in ads on the subway trains on her way to work. It was at about that time that Chang first heard the story of Jane Jacobs, a New York housewife-turned-activist who led the fight against a plan spearheaded by “master builder” Robert Moses that would have leveled entire neighborhoods to make way for a new highway.