8/29/2009

Friends of the...

Favorite New York Quotes, Volume XIII

"The elevated freight rail line, the High Line—the remaining portion is today a stunning linear park above street level—had run through the parcels and been partially dismantled." - Anthony Flint in Wrestling with Moses

The High Line is stunning, and it stuns me to think that I have been an occupant of this city long enough to see it through to the end. Reading that line just now was like a timely moment of clarity, a proverbial punch to the head. I really do live here.

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