Dollars and Cents

14th Street subway station

"New York does not so much as stop to reckon what happiness truly is; she is too engrossed with her materialistic provender, the things which can be judged in terms of dollars and cents, which can be bought and sold; the things which, in the destroyed or partially destroyed cities of Europe, the very hand of distraction has proved to be but ephemeral baubles after all."
Dana Gatlin, McClure's Magazine

New York Stories

14th Street subway station

"The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started. It changes you in all kinds of ways."
Salman Rushdie, The Guardian