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“Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high numbera region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (wh...”
“The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-r...”
“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”
“New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has c...”
“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing ...”
“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”
“The Bronx? No Thonx!”
“New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up”
“New York is a sucked orange.”
“To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.”
“Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.”
“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.”
“Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?Posted like silent sentinels all around the ...”
“Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red brick, with granite co...”
“Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.”
“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.”
“My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.”
“Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the rich...”
“Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.”
