Here is New York (1949)

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Here is New York (1949)

“Yet,” thought Jacob, seeking to see the whole truth, “there is the other side, which always exists. They say of New York that it is like an apartment hotel. And they say: ‘It’s fine for a visit, but I would not want to live here.’ They are wrong. It’s fine to live here, but exhausting on a visit. “Once New York was the small handsome self-containe

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But E.B. White, one of our last great idealists, was eternally right when he asserted half a century ago that the role of the writer is “to lift people up, not lower them down” — a role each of us is called to with increasing urgency, whatever cog we may be in the machinery of society.

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He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there was no necessary regard for the past. The city lived in a sort of everyday present. It had no need to believe in itself as a London, or an Athens, or even a signifier of the New World, like a Sydney,

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Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.

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He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Don DeLillo • White Noise

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.