Vertical and Horizontal

"I found New York the way I expected it to be; a kind of immense vertical mess set upon a square horizontal order."
Nicolas Nabokov, quoted in New York Vertical

Vibrant Pace

"When I think about arriving in New York City, I anticipate its vibrant and pulsating pace which creates passionate feelings inside me."
Elizabeth Taylor, New York Vertical

Hotel

Hotel Chelsea

"New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home."
Glenway Wescott, quoted in New York Vertical

Great City

Robert F. Kennedy Bridge

"New York is a great city to live in if you can afford to get out of it."
William Cole, quoted in New York Vertical

Manhattan is a Cathedral

Grand Central Terminal

"I've always thought that the look of New York, the architecture was fundamentally religious. Manhattan is a cathedral, you know - the modern cathedral."
Herbert Muschamp, New York Vertical