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“I will speak out for them and support them for as long as I have the good sense to remember where I came from.” Work Cited  Powell, Colin “My American Journey”. The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York … Continue reading →

“New York has no pity:it’s every man for himself, and since you are yourself and a half, you fall behind.”   From Annan Quindlen. “Pregnant in New York”.The Place Where we Dwell: reading and writing about New York City.Eds. Juanita … Continue reading →

“Early Christian and Byzantine architecture affords an opportunity for the didactic comparison of longitudinal versus central planning”   Fazio, Michael,Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse, A World History of Architecture, London, Laurence King, 2008.151. Print. The Minoans and Mycenaean’s allow the … Continue reading →

” I know I’ve lost my mind. But I’m not concerned, because its the first thing i’ve lost in a long time that actually feels good.” I can honestly say that this is my favorite sentence in any work of … Continue reading →

I’m here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don’t know about you. Maybe you’re from here, too, and sooner or later it will come out that we used to live a block away … Continue reading →

“It’s about terror and the release from terror, about how close dreams are to nightmares, and how easy it is to escape from your life.” From: Roiphe, Katie. “A Coney Island of the Mind.” The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and … Continue reading →

“And though all the years since then have been for me one long story of a harbor, restless, heaving, changing, always changing, it has never changed for me in this, it has never seemed a haven where ships come to … Continue reading →

“The cyclone gives you the feeling that nothing matters but the second you are in, a feeling worth much more than the four dollars of the ticket.” Work Cited Roiphe, Katie. “A Coney Island of the Mind.” The Place Where We … Continue reading →

“No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.” From: White, E.B. “Here is New York”. The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about        New York City. Eds. Jaunita But, … Continue reading →

We forget more than we remember.   “Dreams simply were not energy efficient.”  Works Cited Lubrano, Alfred. “Bricklayer’s Boy.” The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall … Continue reading →