- New York
- summer
- true
- the city
- passage of time
- pendulum
- heat wave
- boom
- heat
- broken
- piece
- passing
- mention
- speed of light
- down to date
- within the city’s walls
- section
- Manhattan
- strangers
- pulled up stakes
- come to town
- sanctuary
- fulfillment
- grail
- individual
- luck: No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
- commerce
- sport
- religion
- entertainment
- finance
- arena
- gladiator
- evangelist
- promoter
- actor
- trader
- merchant
- hotel room
- air shaft
- midtown
- Executed
- Metropolitan Opera
- Epiphany
- characters
- connection
- separation
- English
- theater
- straw
- tin
- inches
- destiny
- link
- Oz
- privacy
- participation
- dense communities
- events
- minute
- miasmic air shaft
- air show
- in town
- planes
- commercial airliners
- fly over
- ocean-going ships
- seaport
- water front
- exotic lands
- boat
- sloop
- East River
- night
- ebb tide
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Queen Mary
- history of departure and longing and loss
- ballgrounds
- horse parks
- sporting spectacles
- ballplayer
- race horse
- governor
- came to town
- falling comice
- soul
- St. Patrick’s Day parade
- residence
- community
- hat
- settlers
- escape
- Realit
- Creation: is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
- dead
- location
- blocks
- fortune
- independence of spirit
- variety
- sources of excitement
- spiritual sustenance
- maintenance of morale
- shift in weather
- excess of spirit
- small town
- deficiency of spirit
- three New Yorks: There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was bom here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and 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 bom somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last — the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high- strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
- grocery store
- slum
- escape
- manuscript
- first love
- adventurer
- commuter
- suburb
- day’s end
- sleep
- arrival
- departure
- trains
- buses
- quick lunch
- desk-bound
- ramparts
- shore
- fishing
- shelves
- loiterer
- wallet
- coins
- mouths of tubes and tunnels
- silence
- reading room
- Public Library,
- book elevator
- water wheel
- furnaces
- oil drums
- zero
- financial district
- downtown
- Rockefeller Center
- daffodils
- grape hyacinths
- birches
- flags trimmed to the wind
- midtown office
- Governors Island
- sea wall
- mileage
- rover
- prairie-dog village
- East River
- Long Island Rail Road
- lower East Side
- apartment
- uptown
- alley
- around the world
- small space
- music
- city
- poetry
- life
- internal engines
- greatest human concentrate on earth
- slums
- genteel
- mysteries
- Riverside Church
- voodoo
- Harlem
- merchant princes
- Wall Street
- Paris
- London
- depression
- Empire State Building
- mooring mast
- dirigible
- flush toilets
- Fog
- skyward
- absence
- white church spire
- village
- visible symbol of aspiration and faith
- white plume
- summer traveler
- window
- sleeping car
- pigeon lofts
- back yards
- midtown
- upward thrust
- great walls
- towers
- rising
- smoke rising,
- pneumatic tube
- telephone cables
- power lines
- steam pipes
- gas mains
- sewer pipes
- gods
- weevils
- panic
- fire
- rioting
- supply line
- system
- short circuit
- traffic snarl
- Bottleneck
- food lines
- plague
- ships’ rats
- sea
- nerves
- pall
- smoke-fog
- mass hysteria
- subways
- muddling through
- hospitals
- schools
- playgrounds
- overcrowded
- express highways
- unimproved highways
- bridges
- Bottlenecks
- air
- light
- belonging
- cosmopolitan
- mighty
- unparalleled
- outlander
- waiter
- sucker joint
- friendly saloon
- riding the wrong subway
- bus driver
- sleepless nights
- bedroom
- tourists
- summertime
- Statue of Liberty
- Automat
- radio studios
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral
- window shop
- disillusioned
- cheap restaurant
- It’s a wonderful place, but I’d hate to live there.
- convenience
- friendliness
- neighborhood over-the-fence living
- composite
- districts
- Chelsea
- Murray Hill
- Gramercy
- residential units
- Harlem
- racial unit
- Greenwich Village
- Radio City
- commercial development
- Peter Cooper Village
- housing unit
- Medical Center
- sickness unit
- geographical unit
- small neighborhoods
- self-sufficient
- a city within a city within a city
- grocery store
- barbershop
- newsstand
- shoeshine shack
- ice-coal-and-wood cellar
- order
- walk by
- dry cleaner
- laundry
- delicatessen
- beer
- sandwiches
- flower shop
- undertaker’s parlor
- movie house
- radio-repair shop
- stationer
- haberdasher
- tailor
- drug- store
- garage
- tearoom
- saloon
- hardware store
- liquor store
- shoe-repair shop
- residential sections
- main street
- paper
- wood cellar
- dry cleaner
- apartment
- country village
- storekeepers
- neighborhood boundary lines
- transient
- vagrant
- loneliness
- die-hards
- authentic characters
- giants
- typewriter
- block
- Grand Central
- worshipful beginners: young actors, young aspiring poets, ballerinas, painters, reporters, singers — each depending on his own brand of tonic to stay alive, each with his own stable of giants.
- open windows
- drum and saxophone parlors
- Cort Theater
- matinee
- audience
- street singer
- cane
- prop
- city of opportunity
- mounted cop
- speakeasy
- murals
- owner
- salvation
- radio
- men’s room
- ladies’ room
- ventilation
- Central Park
- band shell
- electric lights
- asphalt paths
- Lamplight
- week ends in summer
- jail
- elevator
- fire-alarm
- west windows
- red brick fronts
- brick buildings
- Notre Dame
- the El
- poverty
- summer night
- sidewalk
- free bed
- doorways
- savings bank
- sight-seeing bus
- street of lost souls
- Bowery
- gin mills
- flophouses
- indifference
- end of the line
- Bellevue
- bad housing
- family life
- small shops
- overflow
- sidewalk
- pavement
- orange crates
- garden party
- Lower East Side
- canvas deck chairs
- green lawns
- filth
- gutter
- wire fence
- open-air dance
- delinquency
- baby carriages
- pulley lines
- music stops
- street lamp
- cop
- patrol car
- five boroughs of New York
- Jews
- Russian
- German
- Polish
- Romanian
- Austrian
- Puerto Ricans
- Irish
- Germans
- Russians
- English
- Poles
- Finns
- Czechs
- Swedes
- Danes
- Norwegians
- Latvians
- Belgians
- Welsh
- Greeks
- Dutch
- Chinese
- census takers
- one world
- tolerant
- segregation
- Jim Crowism
- subways
- buses
- hotels
- restaurants
- theater
- music
- art
- Literature
- Jim Crow principle
- city ordinance
- apartment buddings
- public moneys
- tax exemption
- race
- color
- religion
- aerial stations
- Broadway
- neon lights
- custard street
- Greenwich Village
- big apartments
- bars
- mirrored
- chromed
- Mexican glass
- hammered brass
- batik
- lamps made of whisky bottles
- first novels
- fresh memories
- alleys
- ratty one-room rents
- honky-tonk
- advertising displays
- travel broker
- Grand Central Terminal
- great hall
- interiors
- Coca-Cola
- temple
- great mansions
- antique shop
- church administration office
- rich men
- attics of big apartment buddings
- plant trees
- Setbacks
- newspapers
- gumshoeing
- subway
- dark green
- straw yellow
- saloons
- parades
- triumphal military procession
- heavy tanks
- housing projects
- Stature
- purpose
- Rent
- new developments
- sky acreage
- Federal money
- state money
- city money
- private money
- banks
- insurance
- architects
- equilibrium
- flush times
- population
- new dwellings
- lofts
- landlord
- tempo
- tension
- Irritability
- modem life
- shut door
- truck
- coin
- tension
- speed
- taxis
- hackmen
- drive
- tip
- West Side Highway
- Millrace
- businessmen
- soup lines
- bread lines
- lunch hour
- table
- quitting time
- apartments
- No Vacancy
- standing-room-only
- buses
- double-deckers
- doormen
- convenience
- history
- Destructible
- flight of planes
- geese
- towers
- bridges
- underground passages
- chambers
- Statue of Liberty
- East River
- slaughterhouses
- flight of planes
- headquarters
- United Nations
- housing project
- interior city
- shelter
- war
- capital city
- national capital
- state capital
- capital of the world
- architects
- cigar boxes set on end
- traffic
- tunnel
- trees
- Parliament of Man
- riddle in steel and stone
- target
- demon-stration of nonviolence
- racial brotherhood
- willow tree
- interior garden
- battered tree
- life under difficulties
- growth against odds
- sap
- concrete
- sun
- shadow of the planes
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