Skyscrapers

Rob Young  / Wikicommons

"The skyscrapers of the city were a collection of hard-ons zeroing in on Brooklyn."
Joe Flaherty, Tin Wife

What New York Cares For

Temperance Fountain in Union Square

"In the great American metropolis a man is gauged by himself, not by his ancestors nor their achievements. No one cares much for the past: that is 'ancient history.' Nor is much regard paid to a possible though distant future: that is 'imagination.' What New York Cares for is the present."
Thomas N. Doutney, Thomas N. Doutney: His Life-struggle, Fall, and Reformation

In Love with New York City

Cosby Street

"Ah! some love Paris,
And some Purdue.
But love is an archer with a low I.Q.
A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity.
So I'm in love with New York City."
Phyllis McGinley, "A Kind of Love Letter to New York"