The Empire State Building is a lady. She’s like the queen in chess, the most powerful piece. She’s like America.

New York City: the original internet.

The one thing that will help in almost any New York City situation is to simply appear crazier than anyone else around.

Them, graves, the city in late-August haze: a twenty-first-century American Gothic.

While it’s true the city’s gotten a lot safer, you still gotta watch out for the wackadoos. You always will.

Twenty bucks an hour is no great wage in New York, a city where the middle class starts somewhere in the six figures.

The direction of the East River’s flow changes, switching up to four times a day because it’s not really a river; it’s a tidal strait. Its name is a lie. But so many things are.

Anyone who would willingly ride a bicycle through the frenzied streets of New York City could only have an I.Q. in the low double digits. That, or a death wish.

Everybody in Queens drives too fast, like they’re trying to kill someone.