Banquet

Mad. Sq. Eats

"To paraphrase Mae West, 'New York is a banquet and most of the suckers in it are starving to death.'"
Chuck Lawliss, Retro NY

Manhattan Domicile

Bowery

"People talk of the pride a New Yorker must feel in his great city! To be a citizen of New York is a disgrace. A domicile on Manhattan Island is a thing to be confessed with apologies and humiliation. "
George Templeton Strong, Diary: Post-war years, 1865-1875

City of the Future

Window on the Upper West Side

"Great city, New York. The city of the future."
Nella Larsen, Passing