Sense of Community

6th Street Community Center

"If you think of the great cities of history, Athens is glory... Rome is grandeur, or power... Paris is culture. What is New York? New York is a home. New York's great gift to the world was that people from all over the world could come here, they could create their own communities, their own neighborhoods. So people felt a sense of community, a sense of belonging."
Robert Caro, Exchange Magazine

Something Tremendous

"You feel, in New York City, the energy coming up out of the sidewalks, you know that you are in the midst of something tremendous, and if something tremendous hasn't yet happened, it's just about to happen."
Brendan Gill, PBS

Small Place

"New York's a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed."
P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves