New York Temperature

"New York swings in a few weeks from arctic cold to tropic heat. These changes acerbate the nerves. There is a quality in the air in spring and autumn that makes it possible for you to do more there than in any other city."

Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

Woman's City

Rose Hill

"London is a man's city, New York a woman's city, but in spite of St James's and Savile Row I believe that a man has a better time in New York, simply because it is a woman's city. There is greater immediate warmth and friendliness; there is also greater intimacy."

Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

Magnet

Battery Park and Statue of Liberty

"New York has been a magnet drawing to itself from East, North, South, West, from every state of the Union and from every European country, the restless, the dissatisfied and the ambitious, who have demanded more from life than the circumstances of their birth offered them."

Alec Waugh, quoted in Governing New York City

Fair-Weather City

Flatiron Plaza

"New York's a grand place when things are going well. It's the worst place in the world when things are bad."
Alec Waugh, Wheels Within Wheels