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Here is New York (1949)
"If New York is a city of reinvention," writes Stephanie Zacharek, "it’s also a place of perpetual wistfulness, of missing people and things that are gone. Every day, even in the best of times, something you love about New York disappears: Your favorite restaurant can’t hack it; the awesome little card store had to close because people stopped... See more
instagram.comE. B. White (from “Here is New York”—slightly pretentious, yet insightful):
“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this largesse that accounts for the presence within the city’s walls of a considerable section of the population who have no desire for riches and no
... See moreI have always lived in the myth of New York more than in its reality. It is what enabled me to live there for so long, loving the idea of something more than the thing itself.