New York Artist

Lower East Side

"New York is the place for an Artist if he can put up with the noise."
William Sidney Mount, quoted in Young America

Quintessence of America

Williamsburg

"New York, in both its virtues and its vices—its excellences and its defects—its immense material progress, its gayety and good  humor, its active and eager intelligence, its intense energy, its vast treasures of wealth and knowledge, its presumptuous audacity, its reckless lawlessness, its organized disorder, is the very symbol and type of the country. New York is the quintessence of America."
Theodore Sedgwick III, quoted in Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City