“Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life may grow.Jane Jacobs
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.Frank O’Hara
“She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky