NYC minus Manhattan

[IMG Newyorker2_2]This magazine cover always made me laugh. Even though it was done in the 70s the central thought still resonates. To New Yorkers there is not much of real value across the waters of the Hudson or the East River. Once you leave the island of Manhattan the world becomes a bit blurry, a bit irrelevant. It's a type of social snobbery really. When I lived in New York I actually spent most of the time living in Brooklyn rather than Manhattan. In retrospect I think that one of th

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