Apartment Slaves

Dumbo

"New Yorkers are now slaves to their apartments, obsessed with where they dwell. For everyone in this city knows that an apartment is everything. To be dislodged for whatever reason is to be thrown over the brink into an abyss of terror and unremitting uncertainty."
Herbert London, The Broken Apple

Tough Breed

"New Yorkers are a tough breed. They are easily identified in other places because the city is in their blood. They are fast on their feet and with their mouths."
Herbert London, The Broken Apple

Alarm Clock

Flatiron Building and Fifth Avenue Clock

"To be a New Yorker is the opposite of 'laid back.' New Yorkers don't need caffeine to wake up — the city is their alarm."
Herbert London, The Broken Apple

An Open-Air Drug Bazaar

A needle disposal box in the Lower East Side

"Walking the streets of New York is like observing an open-air drug bazaar. The dealing isn't restricted to one location, like Harlem, nor are the transactions conducted in secrecy. In New York it is easier to get hashish than in Marrakech."
Herbert I. London, The Broken Apple