Home of the Homeless

"Today New York is more than ever the home of the homeless, the capital of American as well as European refugees. "
Alistair Cooke, The American Home Front

International Settlement

"New York is unique as a great metropolis in that, while it unquestionably has its own characteristic life, this life does not focus the life of the rest of the country, as London is the distillation of all English character and custom. But I had a sense this leg of my journey of returning from America and entering an international settlement."
Alistair Cooke, The American Home Front

Insensate Village Pride

Rose Hill

"As the late Fred Allen used to say -- 'everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.' This parochialism is common in all the big cities of the East, but in New York City it amounts to a kind of insensate village pride."
Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America