Sea Gulls Know About New York

Moynihan Train Hall steps

"Never think, Edwin, that New York is a wilderness without connection; this is only the provincial view; even the sea gulls know better, and have their patrons, and their lanes."
Hortense Calisher, The New Yorkers

Diamanté

Midtown Manhattan (Pixabay)

"Fifth Avenue still shone like an enormous blue sugarplum revolving in a tuttifrutti rain of light. Here was the season in all its questionable glory—the hallmarked joy of giving, the good will diamanté."

Hortense Calisher,  Extreme Magic