In the passage “City Limits ” Colson Whitehead described what being a New Yorker is, and what living in New York is as well. He stated that the past is more important than the present. He went further to say New York is not New York if you did not see it, then don’t believe it. Whitehead, then explains that everyone views New York and react to its different situations in a different way because we are all different. He specified, as he began to shape the passage, by the way New York began and how a person may have encountered it. Then in our heads we begin to build a point of view of New York. He describes the old New York to the new, New York. He says new, New York because old buildings are being broken or torn down and established with modernized buildings. Whitehead believe, we do not notice the changes because we as people; must accept and change with New York because we do don’t have a choice therefore, we confirm.