Niceville

"Normally New Yorkers had a different two-word greeting for one another, but today it was nothing but 'Merry Christmas!' from Yankee Stadium to the Statue of Liberty. Even the urgent blat of the car horns was more subdued than usual. It was, Caroline noticed, like some other place entirely: Niceville. Politetown. Haveanicedayton."
Kyle Smith, Caroline in the City

Outer Boroughs

Queens

"His speech was not cowboy laconic but rather Queens jive, the wage-slave patois of that tiny throwback slice of the city workforce that was actually born somewhere out there in the B- and C-list boroughs, the ones separated from the main island by waterways that served as velvet ropes."
Kyle Smith, Caroline in the City

New York Burden

Eleventh Avnue

"Guys on the sidewalk said lots of things, most of them vile. It was part of the burden of living in New York, and also part of the reason why Caroline couldn't imagine living anywhere else."
Kyle Smith, A Christmas Caroline

About New York

Jersey Street

"Sometimes people don't get New York. The place is dirty and dangerous and crowded and costly, and every other place is even worse."
Kyle Smith, Love Monkey