New York Feeling

"New York is interesting in that even at the bottom of the skyscrapers' deepest trenches a good portion of its inhabitants tend to feel a little bigger, a little more consequential, than they are."
Laird Hunt, The Exquisite

Swell

Morningside Heights

"New York is swell. It is swell on a cold wet night and it is swell on a cold clear dawn. It is swell with the cars coming fast toward you and it is swell down by the subway tracks, where the people come to gather and watch each other and wait. It is swell with the attractive denizens and with those who are not, including those, like you, who might once have been. It is swell with the shop lights and it is swell with its skyscrapers and acres of rubble and brilliant glass-strewn streets with everyone loving everything and moving through the haze of airborne particles saying fuck you."

Laird Hunt, The Exquisite