Real

Financial District

"If 1,668,172 people (out of New York's total population of 7,710,346) are to be set down in one narrow strip of land between two quiet rivers, you can hardly improve on this solid mass of buildings and the teeming organism of human life that streams through them. For better or worse, this is real."

Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

Alive

"In the third century since the British took Nieuw Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed it New York, the worldly borough of Man­hattan is still a sovereign place that radiates energy and sharpens the minds of her people. Everything about Manhattan is alive."
Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

Night and Day

"All cities are superb at night because their hideous corners are devoured in dark­ness. But Manhattan can sur­vive the daylight test. By day, it has the bizarre beauty of something that could not be imagined if the energy of a working community had not created it out of necessity."
Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

Will Never Rain

Columbia University

"New Yorkers are inclined to assume that it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers."
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun