Darwinian Place

American Museum of Natural History (Pixabay)

"New York is such a Darwinian place. In this fundamentally hostile environment, full of ruthless predators who'll stop at nothing to get to the top, people are constantly forming alliances for their own protection."

Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Lawless Wilderness

Midtown

"New Yorkers, I discovered, pride themselves on their city's image as a lawless wilderness and like nothing more than reading about naive greenhorns being relieved of all their possessions within fifteen minutes of arriving."
Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People