Where the Impossible is Made Possible

"New York was a city where the improbable would be made probable, the implausible plausible and the impossible possible."
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

Prep for Hades

"There are a few weeks in summer when New York is like a preparatory school for Hades."
Rupert Hughes, The Real New York

Fabled City

DUMBO

"I longed for the fabled Lower East Side of Manhattan, for Brooklyn, for the Bronx, where the thoughtful and feeling people in books grew up on porch stoops among seamstress intellectuals."
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood