![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn?t notice them and neither did most other New Yorkers. The biggest ocean-going ships on the North Atlantic arrived and departed. I didn?t even hear any planes except a couple of westbound commercial airliners that habitually use this airshaft to fly over. I didn?t attend and neither did most of the eight million other inhabitants, although they say there was quite a crowd. Since my arrival, the greatest air show ever staged in all the world took place in town. It caused no stir outside his block and got only small mention in the papers. A man shot and killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. Since I have been sitting in this miasmic air shaft, a good many rather splashy events have occurred in town. New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute. White and his publishers, an extended excerpt: The particulars of the city have changed, as White himself admits, but the first half of the book could well have been written yesterday instead of 1949. White, NYC is at once a city of inches and multitudes, of loneliness and excitement, of riches and squalor, of permanence and transience. Here is New York is amazing book, perhaps the most succinct and apt description of New York City ever put on paper. This slim booklet has been sitting on my bookshelf for ages, and I finally decided to give it a shot yesterday. ![]()
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