Center of the World

Columbus Circle

"Columbus Circle is the center of Manhattan. Manhattan is the center of New York. New York is the center of America, and America is the center of the world. So we are sitting in the center of the world, right?"
Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers

Beautiful Things

Miss Quisqueya USA in Long Island City

"Manhattan—this city where all things beautiful are welcomed and measured and, if not immediately adopted, then at least tried on for size."
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

American Dream

West Chelsea

"New York is for me the most dazzling example of the American Dream at work. The lessons it teaches—lessons of hope, opportunity, struggle, and accomplishment—can help support us through the good times and sustain us when hard times come."
Donald Trump, The America We Deserve