Social Fluidity

Morningside Heights

"There isn't a neighborhood in New York that is free of the poor, the raffish, the unwanted. Social fluidity in the city means no one gets away from no one."
Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level

New York Friendship

"New York friendship is an education in the struggle between devotion to the melancholy and attraction to the expressive."
Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level

Town and Country

Gantry Plaza State Park

"New York is like a country, the neighborhood is your town, you spot someone from the block or the building in another neighborhood and the first impulse to the brain is, What are you doing here?"
Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level