Sensuous Summer

Tompkins Square Park

"I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it — overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

New York in the Heart

Manhattan and Queens

"You are thrilled by New York—I doubt you will be after five more years when you are more fully nourished from within. I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Life in Letters

Flicker

Manhattan

"I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Beginning of the World

Central Park West

"New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

Wild Promise

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby