“City Limits” is a story from “The Colossus Of New York”  written by Colson Whitehead. He starts off saying that he was born in New York and how the city makes your home town look really “drab” and “tiny”. Colson states that you start building your own New York once you’ve laid your eyes on it. That first glimpse you see of the city is that “first brick” into growing your New York City. One thing that Colson said that was interesting is when he refers the Met Life Building to the Pan Am. Of course he is wrong, but at the same time who is to tell him what is what? Whitehead’s New York is different from everyone else, because you are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.