New York's History

"New York is the city that reproduces itself according to the ideals of each generation. It has no continuous line. Everything is possible because its past is only the future turned upside down. New York's history is what happened tomorrow."
Jerome Charyn, In the Shadow of King Saul

Training Ground

Central Park

"The problems of New York, and what makes it so explosive and so powerful a myth, is that it is a training ground where the rest of the West can read its future."
Jerome Charyn, Conversations with Jerome Charyn

Old World

Rose Hill Historic House

"New York is really not an American city. It's really the Old World, the world of Europe reconstituted in some kind of fantasy."
Jerome Charyn, Conversations with Jerome Charyn