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Charles Schifano's avatar

This is excellent—you weave several intriguing threads here. Thank you for posting this.

The line—"It is, more than anything, a city of noises"—is particularly notable.

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Thank you. It took me a decade to realise nyc is a city of noise

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Jane's avatar

Beautiful piece. For a reader from South Africa with many links to New York, this is fresh, evocative original. How we live where we are....

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