“The firmament that is New York is greater than the sum of its constituent parts. It is a city and it is also a creature, a mentality, a disease, a threat, an electomagnet, a cheap stage set, an accident corridor. It is an implausible character, a monstrous vortex of contradictions, an attraction-repulsion mechanism so extreme no one could have made it up” -Luc Sante
“A city that relentlessly tears itself down and rebuilds itself, embodying all that is new, it nevertheless has the richest historic heritage of any city in the country” – Joseph Schumpter
“The rise of Manhattan is the product of an unformulated theory, Manhattanism, whose program is to exist in a world totally fabricated by man, to live inside fantasy” -Rem Koolhaas
“Is New York the most beautiful city in the world? Is it not far from it. No urban nights are like the nights there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on magical powers. Squares and squares of flame, set and cut into ether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
-Ezra Pound
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