
Here is New York (1949)

What Is The City But The People? (New York City Department of City Planning, 1969)
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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
E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
For a whole generation, New York has become steadily more frustrating and tedious to move around in, more expensive to do business in, more unsatisfactory to raise children in, and more difficult to escape from for a holiday in the country.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.
Tom Wolfe • The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
The Trouble I’ve Seen,