New York Proclaimed

“If Paris suggests Intelligence, if London suggests Experience, then the word for New York is Activity”. Thus V.S. Prichett, one of the most distinguished contemporary essayists, characterizes New York in his perspective and briliant distillation of the city-its people and places-from the Battery to Harlem, from the comfortable colony of New Amsterdam to the restless, throbbing modern city of towers, bridges, tunnels, ceaseless traffic, shrieking sirens ,and nearly eight million inhabitans in constant motion.