Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
No Dominant Narrative
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Upper West Side |
"London has a dominant narrative. There is no comparable dominant narrative in New York; just the collected narratives of everyone who shows up."
Salman Rushdie, The Paris Review Interviews
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
What Happens in New York
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
"Welcome to New York"
Poster on the East Village |
Lewis Grizzard, It Wasn't Always Easy, But I Sure Had Fun
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Greenery
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Best
Monday, February 21, 2011
Nothing is for Certain
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Musical Chairs
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Nuclear Waste
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West 113th |
"I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit."
P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
In a New York Minute
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Synthesis of the World
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Lever House |
Roberto Quesada, The Big Banana
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Babylon Next to the Holy City
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Jane's Carousel |
Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Engagement with Strangers
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West 23rd |
"New York City demands engagement with strangers. The sidewalks and subways are so crowded that we have no choice but to overhear private conversations and see faces at distances normally reserved for intimates. We are often close enough to see the crow's feet taking hold on a young face, smell the kimchi wafting from the paper bag, spot the flask in the back pocket. We are privy to strangers' ambitions, fears, and preoccupations in an almost unnatural way."
Ariel Sabar, Heart of the City
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Subway
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Times Square subway station |
"Only real New Yorkers can find their way around in the subway. If just anybody could find his way around in the subway, there wouldn't be any distinction in being a real New Yorker except talking funny."
Calvin Trillin, With All Disrespect
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
No Heart or Soul
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Financial District |
"If New York has little repute as a city of culture, it has perhaps still less as a city of brotherly love. Its head may be thought shrewd enough in business matters, but whoever accused the city of having a heart or a soul?"
John Charles Van Dyke and Joseph Pennell, The New New York
Friday, February 11, 2011
New York Fashion Week
"New York City's Fashion Week and the fall fashion magazines that overflow the newsstands during that time make the city glow with the glamour, carnival, and creativity that drives department stores, luxury boutiques, editorials, magazines and fashion-crazed women for months to come."
Elizabeth Currid, The Warhol Economy
Thursday, February 10, 2011
An Immense Palimpsest
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The New York Skyline in Quotes
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Here is a list of our favorite quotes about the New York skyline -- so far. Remember that you can also use the search box at the bottom of this page, to find more quotes about the skyline (or any other aspect of NY).
1. "I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline."
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
2. "That skyline -- the apotheosis of New York's grace and swagger, creativity and hard labor-- is lovelier to me than the most serene sunset or snowcapped mountain range."
Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
3. "There's a swell when you first see Manhattan. It's true, you think, the skyline is not a mirage, and you can be inside of it, naked in that gold light."
John Weir, What I Did Wrong
John Weir, What I Did Wrong
5. "The Manhattan skyline is like looking at a great work of art; when you're in the presence of a great work, it is hard to give your attention to anything else."
Maurice A. Hargraves, A More Perfect Union: Socialization to Realization
Maurice A. Hargraves, A More Perfect Union: Socialization to Realization
6. "The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
7. "The skyline of Manhattan soars into view, its towers and citadels shooting skyward in anarchic and bewildering profusion, overwhelming in their sense of power and their gargantuan beauty, looking more than ever like some unearthly fantasia out of a fairy tale. It is the one urban view in all the world which sings at a journey's end like a public triumph."
Clair Price, quoted in Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
Clair Price, quoted in Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
8. "Once you're on the bridge and moving towards Manhattan the skyline dominates, and it's almost as if the buildings are people, jammed shoulder to shoulder, rushing toward midtown, thinning out, and then congregating again downtown around Wall Street and Battery Park. They're all lit up, like they've got someplace special to be and they've put on their finest clothes. They know that everyone is looking at them,but they've grown accustomed to that kind of attention, and besides, those little people can look, but they can't really touch."
Andrea Giovino, Divorced from the Mob
Andrea Giovino, Divorced from the Mob
9. "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Staying Away
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West Side of Manhattan |
"I think you know that when an American stays away too long from New York something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid."
Sherwood Anderson, The Letters of Sherwood Anderson
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Manhattan and its Adjuncts
Sunday, February 6, 2011
A Place to Get Over Anything
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Commissioners
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West 40th |
"New York has more commissioners than Des Moines, Iowa, has residents, including the Commissioner for Making Sure the Sidewalks Are Always Blocked by Steaming Fetid Mounds of Garbage the Size of Appalachian Foothills, and, of course, the Commissioner for Bicycle Messengers Bearing Down on You at Warp Speed with Mohawk Haircuts and Pupils Purely Theoretical Particles."
Dave Barry, The World According to Dave Barry
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Friday, February 4, 2011
All Exits
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Major Deegan Expressway |
"The Bronx is all exits and no entrances. If there's a place that has 'departure' written all over it, it's the Bronx."
Michael Pearson, Shohola Falls
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Forward
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Forward Building |
"New York kept going forward precisely because it didn’t give a good goddamn about what it had left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey."
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Great Times and Tall Deeds
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Particularly Cold
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