Wonderful and Brutal

West Broadway

"New York is so different and so sort of relentless you have to be up for it if you're going to be there, whether you're ready for it or not. It's a brutal place. It's a wonderful place, but it is brutal."
Jessica Hagedorn, The Asian Pacific American Heritage

Kansas

Central Park

"New York is just like Kansas... intensified."
Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox), The Secret of My Success

Devouring City

Greenwich St.

"New York devours people, leaving merely the husks; then it kills them."
Paul Morand, New York