New York attitudes
I think that the Times should know better than to typecast residents of the five boroughs as crude vulgarians. Let’s not equate a New York City state of mind with the likes of Trump and Scaramucci.
For those who can pay the most
Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York quotes a prescient observation from Jane Jacobs about how cities are destroyed by their success.
NYC faux pas
“Never ever ever EVER refer to the city as ‘the Big Apple.’”
“[T]he city’s one big night”
New Year's Eve in Times Square, 1910
Leslie Buck (1922-2010)
Designer of NYC's "Greek" coffee cup
Joe Ades
A salesman on the streets of New York