¶ New York City
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"headquarters, its leading drama and art market. One Oklahoma stockyard, last year, collected and sent forward to the slaughter house a nose-to-tail chain of cattle 550 miles long. New York’s two million typewriters and calculating machines last years produced rows of letters and figures long enough to run 20 ribbons between the planets Earth and Venus when these two are in closest proximity.
"The ideas in which New York traffics emanate from all around the Earth. It is the world’s greatest import-export idea exchange. New York is not an idea factory, nor an idea mine, nor an idea garden, but it is the world’s point of highest velocity in idea exchanging. As such, New York is the world’s greatest traffic center in hopes and fears, valid or invalid.
“There are but relatively few native New Yorkers. Its population is transient. The average residence is three years. Visitors to New York from around the world frequently assert antipathy to New York’s coldness and bigness. They have not seen the New York we have been describing. They have seen one frame of a moving picture. It looks static.”
¶ Citations
- WAVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY, N.Y. Guidebook, 1964
