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Monday, July 9, 2018

Appalling Place

Gravesend Bay (Wikimedia Commons)

"I find it an appalling place, rich for making money, poor for living. I despise its graft, its crime, its dirt, its accents, its utilitarian ugliness, its opportunistic cheapness, its parvenu swank, its swelling army of epicenes—even its philosophy of toleration, which is less a virtue than a confession of weakness, a lack of a way of life."
Earl Sparling, quoted in Supreme City

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

American Soul

Brooklyn Bridge


"New York is the soul of America."
Earl Sparling, quoted in Images of the American City