Ambivalence

South End Avenue

"I live in harmony with the ambivalence of New York: it's a huge metropolis, and people project onto it their fantasies of success and try to look away from the threats of its underside."
Ernestine Bradley, The Way Home

NY Simply Is

Midtown Manhattan seen from Roosevelt Island

"New York is not a Moloch; it is just not an intimate city, and it does not care whether you love it or not. It does not reach out; it simply is. I love the fact that it does not coerce you, has no expectations of you, lets you be, but has more than enough to offer if you want to engage."
Ernestine Bradley, The Way Home