Here WAS New York

GG recommended this book to me, and my mom bought it for me for graduation. It's a quick read, but it's so full of what New York is all about (or rather, what New York was all about... it was written in 1928). I'll likely be posting more excerpts from the text, but here's the first.

"A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentration on earth, the poem whose music is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive."
From Here is New York by E.B. White

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