The Effect of Living in NYC

Times Square subway station

"I've lived in New York City way too long. I realized this 'cause I was on the subway the other day and I heard a meow moewwww and I’m like, Oh great, here comes some frickin’ guy pretending he's a cat. And I turned around and it was a cat. In a bag. That’s what New York City's done to me. I’m like, Cat noise? Can't be the animal that makes that noise. It's gotta be some weird cat guy. Like I was gonna turn around and there was going to be some guy with like cat ears and a unitard and felt whiskers."
Dan St. Germain, Time Out New York

The Other New York

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"After the tour buses disgorge their tourists into the sleek hotels of midtown Manhattan, and after the day-dwellers lock themselves in against an accumulated fear of the night, the city slowly slouches into its own skin, revealing a vulnerability and an occasional mean streak to those who brave its darker side. This is the 'other' New York, the city as bleary-eyed insomniac that replaces the manicured tourism of daylight."
Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman, Nightshift

Saturday Nights

"Saturday nights begin very quietly in New York City in the summertime. Even Broadway cannot hurry the darkness those big lights need, and Broadway must have the big lights to transform her from ramshackle and dusty into what she really is: an island of unimaginable pleasures, where the forbidden fruit is within reach at last."
Maeve Brennan, The Long-Winded Lady