Masthemm’d Manhattan

"What can ever be more stately and admirable to me than masthemm’d Manhattan?"
Walt Whitman, Selected Poems

Burying New York

Trinity Church Cemetery (Pixabay)

"They've been burying New York for decades now. They've tried to say New York is dead, but they've never produced a body . . . and they never will."
Timothy Healy, quoted in A Mayor's Life

Stone Heard

"I looked down in ravishment. So you didn't have to see New York stiff-necked, from below, I thought. The skyscrapers looked different too, from alongside, as though as though they belonged there, a stone herd of zebras, gazelles, rhinos and giant tortoises."
Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land