Indifference

JFK Airport

"I want to get away from the indifference of New York. I want to care and ─ it sounds implausibly poignant ─ be cared about. The city has seen thousands of us come and go. New York doesn't give a damn."
Caskie Stinnett, The Atlantic Monthly

Man Over Matter

"New York is by far the most magnificent and marvelous city in the whole world—a wonder to the eye and an incomparable stimulus to the imagination. Throned between its noble estuaries, it proclaims, in one majestic symbol, the supremacy of Man over Matter."
William Archer, The Atlantic Monthly