City Limits is a story told in Colson Whitehead’s point of view, the story focuses on New York City or “Your New York City” has he often refers to it by, and it is a story that really captivates the feeling of being a New Yorker in a sense. In City Limits the author Colson Whitehead begins the story by asking us the audience how we got to New York City, Colson Whitehead then proceeds to explain how and when is the reader able to be a New Yorker and according to him “you are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.” In a later part of the reading he starts to make comparisons of the past and the present such as “But look past the windows of the travel agency that replaced your pizza parlor.” Those two comparisons are meant to make the reader think and relate about an specific place that they know and loved but now is gone and also to point out that most people that live in New York City do that sort of thinking. After that comparison Colson Whitehead starts to tell the reader that the buildings and streets in New York city sometimes know more than the actual people living in them and that once those buildings are gone our history will go with them as well. With Colson’s description of a New Yorker is no wonder that towards the end of the reading he starts to say that once you are inside New York you will not want to live anywhere else.