Favorite Child

"New York, I thought, is obviously humanity's favourite child. It's the best. Every parent says they don't have a favourite child, but they lie; and everyone pretends that other cities have a chance of catching up with New York, but they don't."
Caitlin Moran, How to Be Famous

Traffic in New York

Manhattan (Pixabay)

"The traffic in New York is unbelievable, a living entity that materializes at the first light of dawn and keeps the city in check, holding it in its paralyzing grip, asphyxiating with its polluting breath and deafening with the cacophony of engines and and horns. Only in the evening does the monster shrink and disappear, and with the streets almost deserted, the city seems to sigh with relief."
Raffaella Bossi, The Lawyer & the Coronel

Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights (Wikimedia Commons)

"The neighborhood was called Brooklyn Heights, and she was still undiscovered, a little nicked up and past her prime, but beautiful, with a sort of silver-haired grace. The brownstones and brick buildings spoke of time and endurance, the old slate sidewalks and the trees arching over  the streets gave the place an air of solidity and permanence that Manhattan's steel and glass towers could never duplicate."
Norman Green, The Angel of Montague Street