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| Midtown West |
"I looked down in ravishment. So you didn't have to see New York stiff-necked, from below, I thought. The skyscrapers looked different too, from alongside, as though as though they belonged there, a stone herd of zebras, gazelles, rhinos and giant tortoises."
Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land
"Below me lay New York, looking like a white African city with skyscrapers, no trees, only concrete and steel, not an organically grown city over centuries, but determined and rapid, and impatiently built by people who weren't impeded by tradition and whose watchword wasn't security but function."
Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land
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| Avenue A |
"New York is a remarkable place peopled by human flotsam and jetsam, the lucky ones, the successful immigrants – oxymoron! – who crashed or burned their way through the walls of paper, and find themselves in a land of peace and plenty."
Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land
