New York Imagery

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"New York is always confirming its own imagery, in part because the imagery is mostly not the sort that is predicated on perfect light glinting off monuments. The Empire State Building and the figure of Prometheus above the Rockefeller Center skating rink endure in tourist-brochure shorthand, but they don't actually remind you of anything but themselves. New York is all pileup and fluke and babble; its imagery is ad hoc."
Lucy Sante, New York Magazine

One New York

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"Everyone has a black belt in bitching about New York. The subway, for example, is the quickest way to get around so you just have to use it, and some people don’t like that. But, there’s only one New York. It’s an amazing city."
Philip Duff, Irish Times

New York is Back

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"New York's coming back.
All the tourists have returned doing what they do
walking slowly down the sidewalk right in front of you.

Even though some of the seats are wet
the subway is still packed.
And I know New York City's coming back.
New York's back, you can't keep us down.
You can travel the world,
but there's no place like this town."
Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon