Showing posts with label ben hecht. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ben hecht. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Wasteland

North Williamsburg

"New York is a wasteland with a price tag for a soul."
Ben Hecht, quoted in The Billboard

Friday, August 20, 2010

Skyscraper Champion

World Trade Center

"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye."
Ben Hecht, Nothing Sacred