Friday, October 31, 2014
Halloween in New York
"Halloween in New York is special. The people wear astounding masks, wings, and long arms. They have eyes and teeth, which are bulging, and some of the people are wild and some are beautiful. They remind us on that night there is no place for civilization to hide, because these feelings were in us before civilization was born."
Bahadur Tejani, Obamawala
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Hustle-Bustle
"New York is hustle-bustle; it's in your face at all times. 'Hurry up, move on.'"
Reggie Jackson, Becoming Mr. October
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Cold-Hearted Bitch
"New York City, you're a woman
Cold-hearted bitch ought to be your name
Oh, you ain't never loved nobody
Yet I'm drawn to you like a moth to flame."
Al Kooper, New York City (You're a Woman)
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Inside Theater
"New York: The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say, 'Humph, these New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.'"
Robert Benchley, quoted in The Reporter
Monday, October 27, 2014
Three Cities
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Wannabes
"Why is it that everyone in New York is a wannabe? Are there any be's in New York at all? That's only a rhetorical question; I know the answer is no."
Kathleen O'Reilly, The Diva's Guide to Selling Your Soul
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Personal Architecture
Friday, October 24, 2014
Rat Maze
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Struggle and Steel
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Bottom
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Electric City
"I dreamed about moving to New York, I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it. And the inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city."
Taylor Swift, YouTube
Monday, October 20, 2014
Secluded Enclaves
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Nocturnal Animal
"New York is certainly the City That Never Sleeps. But the nocturnal animal that is New York late at night is a very different beast indeed. The air is clearer; the lights are crisper in their incandescent efforts to pierce the eternal nighttime darkness. Every shadow, every person, every corner, seems to have its own story."
Wallace Ford, What You Sow
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Energy
Friday, October 17, 2014
Freaking Me Out
"New York, I Love You
But you're freaking me out
There's a ton of the twist
But we're fresh out of shout
Like a death in the hall
That you hear through your wall
New York, I Love You
But you're freaking me out."
LCD Soundsystem, New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Subway Maps
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Everybody Hustles
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Rich and Poor
Monday, October 13, 2014
Where America Meets the World
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Invisible
Saturday, October 11, 2014
So Decadent
Friday, October 10, 2014
Metropolitan
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Up
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
A Circus
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Magical Twilight
Monday, October 6, 2014
Find Yourself
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Self-Importance
Saturday, October 4, 2014
The Foreigners
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"The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
John Rocker, quoted in The Ten Things You Can't Say in America
Friday, October 3, 2014
Celebrating Difference
"Americans need New York because New York is one of the few places in the country that allows difference to be celebrated, that allows people to reach their full potential."
Kenneth T. Jackson, PBS
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Carnival
"New York looked like painted sets in a sideshow at a carnival where the bearded lady, sword- swallowers, snake charmers, and magicians make their appearances."
Charles Simic, Paris Review
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Magnetic Rock
"He could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, he irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening — and he was among the victors!"
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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