Kind of Europe

The French Building

"I find New York most agreeable in some ways to my temperament: the sense of everybody being displaced, everybody being a little neurotic, communicative, garrulous. New York is a kind of Europe."
Anthony Burgess, Conversations with Anthony Burgess

Neighbourliness

Third Avenue

"Neighbourliness is, I think, the right term for New York, and it is found at its most piquant in Manhattan. After all, this borough which is not even a city complete in itself contrives to be the capital of the world."
Anthony Burgess, New York (Time-Life The Great Cities)