Writing about the city is easy when putting prose to paper from the cold still of a room. The immediacy and power of it is reduced to something that can be viewed as a whole, considered with detachment and distance, like a painting from the far side of the gallery. The city is at its greatest not in the conceptual nor the ideal, but in the rushing directionless release of energy that can only be understood from within, the poetry of action surrounding you, enveloping you in the flow of cars, people, air, avenues and streets, planes aloft, trains beneath, and on all sides the river; forever stroking the long face of the island and kissing it goodbye.
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Oooh, deep!
Well, beautifully put, at least. I am working my way through the PBS NEW YORK documentary, and that exact image occurs about every, I don't know, THREE minutes. Your description is almost as good as watching it!
Useless NY fact #233:
NYC has fewer CCTV cameras than Croydon.
i was in NYC for the 4th time a month ago...I can understand what you have said.
The city , from the window of a hotel , on the 20th floor in Manhatten; can look quite like an ant farm.
When you take your time and study what is happening outside the window and no one cares or knows you are watching you can just feel the massive energy of the people, cars, taxi cabs, busses, boats.
At night is the best time... the bridges have their lights turned on making them remind me of a christmas tree, the windows of the neighboring buildings look alot like a cross-word puzzle or a connect-the-dots game. The cars streaming by one way red the other glaring white.
And all reflecting on a placid Hudson River.