Global Tradition

Times Square (Wikimedia Commons)

"Every year as the clock nears midnight on December 31, the eyes of the world turn once more to the dazzling lights and bustling energy of Times Square. Anticipation runs high. New Year's Eve at the symbolic center of New York City has become more than just a celebration — it's a global tradition. The world holds its breath, and cheers as the clocks strike twelve."
TimesSquareNYC.org

In Need of New York

"The New York I know and love was front and centre of some of the most creative counterculture movements of our times. The city still doesn't sleep, but she's been dozing for a couple of decades. I hope she stops hitting the snooze button soon, because music -- as well a art, film and fashion -- needs her."
Huey Morgan, Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them

Functional Utopia

"Brooklyn is the conscience of New York. While Manhattan tears everything down and changes everything, Brooklyn does a similar thing, but fails miserably at it. It is a crazy quilt of a place. A mongrel place of sorts. It mixes old and modern in a haphazard way. It represents a tiny microcosm of the world—functional utopia."
Jonathan Lethem, quoted in The Brooklynites