Photogenic

East River State Park

"Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles. It looks good in anything: rain, sunshine, blizzards. Its personality comes through in flashes: antic, sloppy, noble, rude. Its bad days are more exciting than good days anywhere else. And its good days are the best, period."

Holland Cotter, The New York Times

Wicked Bitch

Forty-Second Street

"She has become a wicked and wild bitch in her old age, has Manhattan, but there is still no sensation in the world quite like walking her sidewalks. Great surges of energy sweep all around you; the air fizzes like champagne while, always, there is a nervous edge of fear and whispered, distant promises of sudden violence."
Tom Davies, The Bulletin

24/7 City

East 42nd

"Why the fuck would you want to live anywhere else in the world? Sure, income taxes are high, but we get a 24/7 city at our fingertips! Yes, eating out is expensive, but I don't want to eat at an Olive Garden in the 'burbs. There's energy here, shit happens here."
Jen Chung, Gothamist