Achieving Dreams

World Trade Center

"I think New York is one of those cities where, whatever your ambition is, you can look around and instantly see someone achieving that dream, often at a level that you never even knew was possible. That experience can be dispiriting, but also extremely inspiring."
Adrian Tomine, The New Yorker

Everyplace Else

Store in Midtown

"It's not that I love New York. It's just that I hate everyplace else." 
P.C. Vey, The New Yorker

Pretense

Fifth Avenue

"The only way to live in New York is to pretend it's someplace else. There are whole blocks filled with New Yorkers who believe they’re living in Montmartre, apartment buildings that belong properly to Bloomsbury, and even a street or two that reside, imaginatively, in the New York of 1945."
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker