"Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
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| Empire State Building, from Top of the Rock |
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| Manhattan at Night, Empire State and Metlife Building |
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| Glow of Times Square |
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| Washington Square Park- Arch |
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| Statue of Liberty |
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| Times Square |
"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 concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive."
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
" Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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| Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge Park |
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| Lower Manhattan at Night |
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| Manhattan from the Hudson River |
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| Coney Island |
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| Atlantic Ocean |
"Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us."
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| My Beautiful City of Manhattan LOVE LETTER TO THE PLACE CLOSEST TO MY HEART DEAR NEW YORK CITY, IN THE LAST 8 MONTHS I'VE COME TO LOVE YOU FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL YOU ARE. THE SPRAWLING CONCRETE IN ALL THE GIGANTIC MAGNIFICENCE STRUCTURES THE MELTING POT OF UNIQUE INTERESTING PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. YOUR HISTORY AND YOUR STRENGTH. THE GRIT AND GRIM OF YOUR WELL WALKED STREETS. YOUR BRIGHT LIGHTS THAT SHINE THROUGH THE NIGHT. FOR WHAT YOU REPRESENT, THE TOWERS THAT ONCE STOOD TALL. FOR LADY LIBERTY AND THE IDEALS OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY. FOR THE MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT INHABIT YOU. FOR THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE THE DAILY GRIND. THE FLASHING GLOW OF TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT, THE SPRAWLING SKYLINE. THE QUIET STREETS OF BROOKLYN TO THE CROWDED SIDEWALKS OF MANHATTAN. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. I'VE GROWN AND BEEN CHALLENGED IN WAYS I NEVER KNEW POSSIBLE. I'VE WALKED QUIET PATHS OF CENTRAL PARK IN SPRING AND STROLLED CROWDED BEACHES OF CONEY ISLAND IN SUMMER. I'VE WATCHED THE SUNSET FROM THE TOP OF ROCK AND EMPIRE STATE. I'VE CROSSED THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE IN THE POURING RAIN AT MIDNIGHT, WITH NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN SIGHT. i'VE MARVELED THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. I'VE DRIVEN THE STREETS OF MIDTOWN. I'VE EXPLORED YOU ABOVE GROUND AND BELOW. THERE IS NO PLACE I'VE EVER BEEN QUITE LIKE YOU, AND NO PLACE I COULD EVER GO THAT WOULD COME CLOSE TO COMPARISON. IT'S BEEN A TRUE LOVE AFFAIR, JUST ME AND YOU. YOU WILL BE MISSED. BUT DON'T WORRY, I SEE THE POSSIBILITIES OF A FUTURE WITH YOU. I'LL BE BACK SOMEDAY. UNTIL THEN, THANKS FOR THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF MY LIFE. -SARAH |