3 New Yorks

Well Said #2

I saw this quote on the subway yesterday and thought it was very fitting to use as my first blog post from NYC. I am the third part of New York.

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter – the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in search of something . . . Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.”

E. B. White from Here is New York

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