Difficult City

West 110th

"New York was a difficult city, far too rich in the ugly, the absurd, the monstrous, the hideous, and the unbearable. Everything capable of being exaggerated or distorted, was."
Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

Street Level

City Hall Park

"New York is a different environment: if you look up to the top of the buildings, it is brand new, but at the level of the street, it is a couple of hundred years old, rooted in the Paris and London of the Enlightenment."
Brian Berger, New York Calling

New York Ambience

"You come to New York to find the ambience that will evoke your best. You do not necessarily know precisely what that might be, but you come to New York to discover it."
James Hillman, quoted in The New York Times World of New York