Raw Energy

"The city was supposed to be a disaster, but its flow of raw energy made me bounce again. I wanted it all: the smell of the oil fumes on the crosstown bus, the crowds piling out of the subways, the lofty buildings that were New York man's loftiest monument to himself."
Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There From Here

Transfusion

New York Blood Center bus on 42nd St.

"New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart. Some people find it cruel and lonely. To me it was a transfusion, mostly because it was real."
Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There From Here

From Lonely to Friendly

Columbus Park

"New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at PJ Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way."
Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There from Here