Seeing People Jump

Metropolitan Life Tower

“The ultimate certification of your status is seeing people jump, and New York is a city set up to see people jump."

Tom Wolfe, quoted in The New York Times' Book of New York

The Bigness of New York

Midtown West

"New Yorkers are accustomed to the city's bigness--the density, the relentlessness, the tabloid headlines, the extra zeros in their paychecks and their bank accounts."
James Barron, The New York Times' Book of New York