Adrenaline Rush

"Everyone says that New York gives you an adrenaline rush like no other city — and they are right. I lived here for three years in the 1980s. Even though I was mugged, twice, and lived with a family of cockroaches in the then unfashionable borough of Queens I loved it. Still do."
Mark Palmer, The Daily Mail

Fragile City

Tribute in Light (Pixabay)

"New York is such a larger-than-life city, yet 9/11 taught us that it’s no less fragile than anything else in life. After 9/11 I could no longer take the city for granted. Every minute of every day, I value it to the utmost."
Olivia Thirlby, The Daily Mail

Huge and Brutal

"I love New York's energy and, in a funny way, the lack of concession to human scale: everything is huge and brutal, including the architecture, the pace, and the weather."
Lee Child, Daily Mail