Comfort

"If you had asked me this in the '90s, I would've predicted New York was going towards Tokyo or Blade Runner. New York was going to get taller; there'd be sex clubs in buildings that catered to hospital fetishes. And there'd be freeze-dried drinks at bars. In reality because of 9/11 it's a run for comfort. It's the proliferation of cupcake shops. New York has.tried to recast itself to look like the rest of America. Instead of rising like a phoenix, it retreated into itself."
Julia Cafritz, New York Rock