George Gershwin

"In Manhattan, things, people and activities are stacked one on top of another in a way that is very different from the sanitised twenty-first-century skyscraper metropolis. The skyline is as raucous as George Gershwin; tumultuous rather than orderred; random and experimental, not planned."
Ben Wilson, Metropolis

New York at Night

"New York at night is full of such beauty that if the only thing you had ever experienced was sailing into New York by night you would have gained an impression you would not forget as long as you live."
Fritz Lang, quoted in Metropolis