City of Fire

"When night comes, a fantastic magic city, all of fire, suddenly blazes up from the ocean. Without consuming, it burns long against the dark background of the sky, its beauty mirrored in the broad, gleaming bosom of the sea."
Maxim Gorky, Writing New York

New York in the Fog

Helen Keller at Madame Tussauds

"New York has a special interest for me when it is wrapped in fog. Then it behaves very much like a blind person."
Helen Keller, quoted in Writing New York