Best and Worst

"New York is, par excellence, the city of extremes and contrasts. It is at once the very worst and the very best of all American cities, alike the very darkest and the very brightest. It is the city of crimes and the city of charities, the city of infidelity and irreligion, the city of the Sunday-school and the church, the city of the public rum-shop, and the city of the public school."
Thomas N. Doutney, Thomas N. Doutney: His Life-struggle, Fall, and Reformation