Never Quiet or Peaceful

Piano in Washington Square Park

"'Manhattan is never really quiet or peaceful, Oscar,' Miss Withers told him. 'Sometimes it is hushed—but only with the hush that comes just before the crescendo movement of a Wagnerian opera.'"
Stuart Palmer, The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers

For the Young

College Walk at Columbia University

"New York is for the young. It's for people who are still fighting. It's a beehive, with no place for a retired old drone like me."
Stuart Palmer, Nipped in the Bud