• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    11 days ago

    “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

    - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

    • Reid Simmons@mas.to
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      3 months ago

      @mattblaze@federate.social Vincent Scully on the then new Penn station:

      “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”