• New Yorkers

    We were surprised at the number of New Yorkers who told us how much they would like to get out of the city because it had become a sick city, a dangerous city, in which an unaccompanied woman (and many men, for that matter, feared to walk in the streets at night. Among the ordinary people that we met — the cafe waitress, air terminal receptionist,. the janitor in a large building near the Grand Central Station, taxi drivers — all were most courteous and took infinite trouble to assist us. Such human contacts helped to counteract the shock that New York gave us.



    It is this persistent fantasy that has generated the lamentation that "the Village has changed," that it has be-come too commercial. There is the feeling that there has been a falling off from the glory days of the past.

    Then there is the absinthe drinker whose desperate aim is to make her seventeen years look like the abyss of depravity, dead-white make-up sets off the black penciling around her burnt-out (she hopes) eyes, and her long paste earrings swing slowly with her exhausted walk. No matter how they see themselves—the pioneers, the late romantics, the dissolutes — they remain to the viewer beguiling bunches of fresh flowers.

    Resources:

    Hireessaywriter article on Cities and Places (Culture);

    Virtual New York - History Resources.


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