Invincible

One World Trade Center

"New York is where I always wanted to be. I don't think that will change. The city is invincible."
Nathaniel Rich, Odds Against Tomorrow

The Opposite of San Francisco

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

"New York is, in many ways, the opposite of San Francisco. If San Franciscans live with the knowledge that their city may fall into ruin at any moment, New Yorkers live as if their buildings are impregnable, that the city will never fall, that it will prosper forever."
Nathaniel Rich, Mayor's Tongue

Paradise of Renewal

Hudson Yards

"You know how New York is. I don't need to list its qualities. It is the city of the dead. The noise of the crowds overwhelms the introspective mind. But in its incessant destruction of the old, it is a strange paradise of renewal."
Nathaniel Rich, Mayor's Tongue