Something to Prove

Carl Schurz Memorial

"People don’t move to New York for physical comfort. People don’t stay and live here because it’s easy. For decades people have come, for the very reason that it is hard, because they’ve got something to prove, to themselves or to the world."
Daily News Editorial Board, NY Daily News

Too Hard for Too Many

Midtown Manhattan

"New York is too hard, for too many. The opportunities, the serendipities, the quintessential experiences and wonders of New York are closed down, and cut off. The thrills and superlatives, the biggest, longest, tallest and best of everything in the world, the very things that more than made up for all the downsides — the rats, high rents, bad smells and loud noises — those things are on pause."
Daily News Editorial Board, NY Daily News

Atomic Collider

Daily News Building (Wikimedia Commons)

"This city will come back when it’s once again a magnet that draws people in; the electric, the eccentric, the hucksters, the hustlers, the immigrants, the schemers and the refugees. All 8 million-plus people, and, we hope, plenty more, pack in like sardines across the city’s square miles — in offices, on stages, streets, sidewalks, in restaurants, hospitals and hallways of high-rises. What happens next is the human equivalent of an atomic collider, the machine that speeds up tiny particles and sends them smashing into each other. That collision creates energy."
Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News