In the essay, “City Limits”, the writer, Colson Whitehead speaks about how people become “New Yorkers” from the very moment they arrive. Whitehead basically explains how they get a chance to witness locations and buildings, and stores that would later on become something else. He speaks about the “drab” (dull) and tiny areas of the city where he’s from and also about how others see different parts of the city from their perspective. Colson writes about how we tend to take these streets, buildings, and old apartments for granted, and that we never actually get a chance to to say goodbye. Due to this, we try to escape the inevitable fact that the city would “multiply when were not looking” by retaining the very first memory or name we had about a certain place or area forever. On a different hand, in my opinion, Colson use juxtaposed phrases such as “glorious mess” to combine how he see his city to to how others might see it on their initial arrival. The message that i get from Colson’s writing is that we need to spend time to appreciate every area where we come across, and at the same time understand that it will always become something else and might have a differentiated significance by others