Melancholy

World Financial Center Plaza

"Without the crowds, New York City seemed very old and melancholy, like someone who had seen many sad things and tried to fill their life with hullabaloo to keep from thinking too much."
Ellen Potter, Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City

Upper West Side

West End Avenue

"The Upper West Side is composed entirely of people born in New York who want to be in society, whatever that is, and can't afford to live on Fifth Avenue."
Sinclair Lewis, The Trail of the Hawk

The Bottom of New York

Hudson Yards

"I dug it all — the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York."
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan: A Biography