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Here Is New York

by E.B. White, Barbara Cohen (Editor), Judith Stonehill (Editor), Roger Angell (Introduction)

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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done...more

Hardcover, 58 pages

Published January 1st 2000 by Little Bookroom (first published 1949)

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Oct 11, 2007 Gregory rated it 5 of 5 stars

Every time I read White's gorgeous love letter to New York City, I'm filled with nostalgia for my own town and I tend to wake the next day with a honed sense of observational candor. As many have noted in recent years, his heavy observation of NYC's vulnerability can be read almost as a prophesy of September 11, 2001, though this was written in 1949 when thoughts about the end of World War II and atomic bombs were still abundant:

The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible....more

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Jan 22, 2008 Todd Lukens rated it 5 of 5 stars

A must read for any New Yorker, New York visitor, or lover of the NYC.

The dude gets it right, even 50 years later.

E.B. White's "Here is New York" is a 56 page/7500 word essay about NY.

He begins the essay "On any person who desires such queeer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of lonliness and the gift of privacy." He talks about the fact that you have anonymity in NYC, and can be a hermit, but then are immersed in a concentrated center of cultures/activities/events/people/neighborhoods, th...more

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Jul 26, 2010 Carla Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: readin2007, booksiown, readin2010, thecomfortbooks

Don't tell New Yorkers I said so, but... I think I might like this book more than the city itself. Through E.B. White's eyes, NYC is a magical, romantic place. OK, OK--it is in real life too, but his words lend a certain amount of mystique that I haven't quite uncovered in the city itself. (Leave me alone. I'm a Bama girl and I like it.) I read the final pages of this book while sitting under a tree in Central Park, just as it started to rain. What could be better, seriously?!

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Jun 24, 2008 Colie! rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: New Yorkers, people who don't know why New York is the best city ever.

Recommended to Colie! by: Emma

What an amazing love letter to a city this is. This essay has got me pining to go back to New York, to set up shop and live in those cramped quarters with those hellish humid summers and subways (oh NOT to drive!!) And though this was written in 1949, when black people were still acceptably referred to as "Negros" and Prohibition was not so long ago, E.B. White still captures the soul of New York that has remained constant. Reading this book, though it refers to now obsolete neighborhoods that h...more What an amazing love letter to a city this is. This essay has got me pining to go back to New York, to set up shop and live in those cramped quarters with those hellish humid summers and subways (oh NOT to drive!!) And though this was written in 1949, when black people were still acceptably referred to as "Negros" and Prohibition was not so long ago, E.B. White still captures the soul of New York that has remained constant. Reading this book, though it refers to now obsolete neighborhoods that have been gentrified for ages now, I feel the familiar spirit of walking the streets, feeling the pulse and poetry of the city, that amazing sense of endless possibility that only New York can provide in its way.
And as much as it's been emphasized how quickly and utterly New York has changed and is always changing, it's incredible how much can really remain the same. Even post-9.11, which we thought would undo it all. On that note, the following passage was intensely unsettling. It is strange to me that it wasn't written in October, 2001. Keep in mind this was 1949, and E.B. White died in 1985. He had remarkable foresight:
"The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.
All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority."

Woah.

This essay was beautiful, dated in a way that doesn't really matter, that is, in fact, as E.B. White foresaw, a pleasure to update in one's own mind. It was written with love, and those who have known New York will mark what has changed and what things they too love that have remained the same. Oh, I want to go hoooooome.(less)

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Apr 01, 2009 Mari rated it 3 of 5 stars

New York today is the same as New York of 1948 but also SO different. I didn't fully get the geography, but that's because I don't venture past my set paths (neighborhood downtown, church uptown and some regular tourist spots in between). But that was also a point E.B. White made in this slim book - basically an essay about the city.

I read this paragraph aloud to Shawn:

"New York is nothing like Paris; it is nothing like London; and it is not Spokane multiplied by sixty or Detroit multiplied by f...more

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May 02, 2013 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction-history, read-in-2013, set-in-usa, set-in-usa-new-york, misc-stand-alone-book, publisher-indie, author-gender-male, author-nationality-usa

Should I read it?
At a mere fifty or so pages, the travel essay Here Is New York is worth your time, if for no other reason than E.B. White's writing is lovely.

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New York City has never dazzled me all that much, so I didn't read this essay to learn more about the city. I read Here Is New York because E.B. White wrote it. White's Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan delighted me when I was a child, and I've turned to The Elements of Style on more than a few occasions as a writer....more

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Sep 30, 2012 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars

One day, while mindlessly surfing the internet on a lazy and hot summer day, I came upon a snippet of EB White's essay, and immediately resolved to find the rest of it as soon as possible. I was an immigrant who had grown up in New York City, and like many NYers was absolutely convinced that there was no other city like it in the world. But New York in the summer is hot and sticky and full of sweaty armpits shoved in your face as their owner clings to the subway railing, and chafed thighs and li...more One day, while mindlessly surfing the internet on a lazy and hot summer day, I came upon a snippet of EB White's essay, and immediately resolved to find the rest of it as soon as possible. I was an immigrant who had grown up in New York City, and like many NYers was absolutely convinced that there was no other city like it in the world. But New York in the summer is hot and sticky and full of sweaty armpits shoved in your face as their owner clings to the subway railing, and chafed thighs and limp hair and gasoline and literally counting the steps from your house to the nearest train station, and after an entire semester on a suburban college campus, I was seriously questioning my love for NYC. So when I got back to college, away from New York and at my wonderfully dull but beautiful college campus, I looked up the book in my college library - it's a stained 1949 copy, and somehow that authenticated the experience of reading this short essay as much as discovering it on a hot summer day did. Apparently E.B. White wrote this essay on a hot summer afternoon (before A/C, too - I would have just taken a nap, if I were him), while stuck with too many thoughts in a hotel room. Since he was in a hotel, I imagine that he was not a NY resident at the time, but a visitor (though he mentions having lived in the city for many years prior), which would definitely soften his view of the city.

Anyway, this is a really excellent, clean and simple little essay that gives a glimpse of the city in the midcentury, before it became so notorious in the 70's and onwards, a notoriety that seems to have stuck to this day. White makes a few excellent observations about New York City culture and the mindsets of its inhabitants, as well as wonders at how quickly New York City CHANGES, which I think is key to his essay. Even his foreword ends with "To bring New York down to date, a man would have to be published with the speed of light..." I highly recommend this little ode to what White and I can agree is one of the greatest cities on earth, but one that can be as warm and personal as it is cold and hectic.(less)

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Aug 09, 2012 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: travel, nonfiction, reviewed, favorites, short-work

Powerful short book that pulled me along from the first sentence all the way to be battered about the head near the end. Others have noted it in reviews, I believe maybe even on here. Noted the mention of the planes. And the destruction. The mention of how New Yorkers fear the planes, collapsing buildings, fire, destruction . . .

"burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now" . ....more

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Aug 30, 2011 Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: new-york-new-york

I received this book as a gift from my annual pledge to WNYC (NPR). I usually do not take the gift when I pledge but I have wanted this book for some time so this year I decided I would take the gift, and what a gift it is!

The book, a small pocket size item which in it self is endearing, is a quick read. It took less than an hour to read from start to finish as it is only 56 pages. More properly said this book is more of an essay. The author wrote the entire piece in one sitting while held up at...more I received this book as a gift from my annual pledge to WNYC (NPR). I usually do not take the gift when I pledge but I have wanted this book for some time so this year I decided I would take the gift, and what a gift it is!

The book, a small pocket size item which in it self is endearing, is a quick read. It took less than an hour to read from start to finish as it is only 56 pages. More properly said this book is more of an essay. The author wrote the entire piece in one sitting while held up at the Lafayette Hotel in the east village in the middle of a heat wave in the summer of 1948. EB White's New York, as is our contemporary New York, is in constant flux. The minute one puts pen to paper, the city has already morphed. He makes no effort to keep up with time, or to write in generalizations to resist dating the work, nor should he. So much has changed and yet everything remained the same. As a New Yorker I can attest we always enjoy reading about the footsteps of those who came before us in this big city. The places and faces that have passed by and laid down markers.

There are so many parts and pieces of this text that could be a New Yorker's mantra but of all the following passage stands the test of time.

"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company. . . ."
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Jan 07, 2010 K.O. rated it 5 of 5 stars

When tables are scarce, strangers share. Arden sat down with her soup and this book. She offered to share both. Apparently, Here is New York is an old favorite. She saw it on a table when she walked in. It's short, just short enough for a cup, well a bowl, of soup.

We got to talking about my just moving here and the courage it takes to be here without the promise of a job. We hit it off. She mentioned immaculate conception (re: my being her long lost sister) and offered to help me find a job, wit...more

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Oct 17, 2009 Jake rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sociology

This brief and evocative meditation on New York begins with a memorable line: "On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy". The city that E.B. White describes is full of luncheonettes and dark little bars and shoe-shine men, and while the references feel dated, his thoughts about the city and the people who live here are as true today as they were fifty years ago. And it's not just the beauty and pulse that grabs his attention...more

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Jan 02, 2013 Karolyn Sherwood rated it 5 of 5 stars

New York City is a club, and E.B. White makes you want to join.

Written in 1949, this essay is lyrical, magical, and honest, and only 31 pages long. White, of CHARLOTTE'S WEB fame, packs more sentiment into each sentence than some writers can squeeze into an entire paragraph. Though many of the landmarks he mentions are long gone, White sweeps the reader from Ellis Island to Harlem with stops in the LES, Greenwich Village, Broadway, and Central Park along the way, offering vignettes of the chara...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Martyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, best-in-show, five-stars, non-fiction, travel

A wonderful picture of a vibrant city from a time before McWalbucks destroyed the cultural and civic landscape of America. I loved the description of the man leaving his apartment in the morning and making multiple stops for errands before work, all within one or two blocks of his home, and then again on his way home in the evening, picking up re-soled shoes etc - neighborly visits to individually owned stores run by specialists with only one vocational focus - what a quaint idea; perhaps it wil...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Gloria rated it 3 of 5 stars

This prophetic excerpt from the book amazed me, since it was written in 1949!

The subtlest change in New York is something people don’t speak much about but that is in everyone’s mind. The city, for the first time in its history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Darren Colquhoun rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013-reading-list, american-essays

E.B. White wrote Here is New York, his love letter to the city, in the summer of 1948. When it was published as a slim volume a year later, White conceded that some of his observations may no longer be accurate: “To bring New York down to a date, a man would need to be published with the speed of light.” True enough. But where skylines alter and demographics evolve, there is an enduring quality to New York City – what you might call its essence – that White captures in seven thousand or so words...more E.B. White wrote Here is New York, his love letter to the city, in the summer of 1948. When it was published as a slim volume a year later, White conceded that some of his observations may no longer be accurate: “To bring New York down to a date, a man would need to be published with the speed of light.” True enough. But where skylines alter and demographics evolve, there is an enduring quality to New York City – what you might call its essence – that White captures in seven thousand or so words as well as any other writer has managed.

The essay examines what White calls the three New Yorks: the New York of the native, the commuter and the settler. The adventurous settler is sentimentalized: the slum grocer from Italy, the pained artist from the Midwest, the shamed young girl from a small southern town. These are the people, according to White, who keep the city vital and passionate. These are the chasers of dreams, of life anew.

White is less enthusiastic about the apathetic commuter, who knows nothing of the city other than the immediate world of their workplace and train station. He is “the queerest bird of all.” From a suburb with no vitality, he is desk-bound and knows nothing of the city other than the immediate world of his workplace and train station. It’s a sad figure he cuts and is reminiscent of his 1982 poem The Commuter:

“Commuter—one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.”

The New York of the native is the stabilizing, solidifying element of the city. The native lives in insulation of sorts, in one of the “thousands of tiny neighborhood units,” self-sufficient communities in which one’s life can be lived almost in its entirety. This makes the city “peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along.” So when the Governor, an air show, or a 10,000-man conference comes to town, or when a grisly murder occurs in a different neighborhood, it has the tendency to pass most New Yorkers by. And this insular life of the New Yorker: if it gets stagnant and he becomes unhappy, he need only shift his location ten blocks to rejuvenate his New York experience and become part another tiny neighbourhood unit.

As much as anything else, the essay is about change. White recalls the New York of the 20s and 30s, when he started out in the city, with its newspapers, speakeasies and delis that would deliver liquor to your door day or night. And he laments how much the city has changed: the el has been torn down, Broadway has been dwarfed by neon signs, Grand Central has become tawdry, and tenements are giving way to the high-rise projects (this is the era of Robert Moses of course). The city has changed in tempo and temperament, and has become bloated with people too, but what White cites as the subtlest (and least talked about) change is the city’s vulnerability:

“The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”

This section of the essay seems prophetic in light of what happened half a century later. And although White may fear a different threat to New York in the Cold War era, he captures New York’s weakness: its perceived priority as a target for America’s enemies. “In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might let loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.”
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Jul 03, 2012 Betty rated it 5 of 5 stars

When I stumbled upon this tiny little book, I was reminded of "Apple of My Eye" by Helene Hanff. That was before I read it. Whereas Helene gives you a tour of the city, E.B. White gives you more of a psychological overview of the the city into what makes it tick. From the tumultuous, ethnic mixture and tension,, to the wave of commuters which crash upon the streets Monday through Friday that never really get to know New York; only prostituting her for money.

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Aug 06, 2010 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: other-non-fiction

My initial reaction as I was reading through this remarkably short essay was that it was being written with overwhelming naivety. Even in 1949, when the book was written, it couldn't have been as beautiful, and neighborly and perfect as White was writing it. But as the story continues (it might be an essay, according to White, but it really is a story) he peels back the layers and lets us see what is underneath, even the parts that aren't pretty. It makes me wonder what he would say about the ci...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013-113-book-project, non-fiction

My favorite Children's Book of all time is Charlotte's Web. I noticed a little book on my daughter's bookshelf entitled HERE IS NEW YORK by E. B. White, the same author. It was published in 1949 (before Charlotte's Web but after Stuart Little). I knew White was an essayist, but I had never read one of his essays. This one was fascinating and somewhat prophetic. Here is a quote from page 51, "A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the t...more

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Apr 09, 2009 Amanda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own-it

Oof, 4 or 5? 4 or 5? Can I do 4.5? Okay 5. Something reminded me of this book this morning. I was gifted a copy at the end of my first internship in New York, but it was a while before I read it. Which was good I think, because by the time I read it, I knew the city better, and it knew me, and so the book resonated more.

It's short, so there's not one word more than needs to be there. Eloquent and evocative and succinct. I am convinced that if I picked it up again to read it, now that I've left...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Matt Miltenberg rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great subject, even better writing. Having only read E.B. White's Charlottes Web prior to this I was blown away by how well this was written. If you grew up in or around NY you'll appreciate this essay for the timeless insights it had into it's people and functions. Loved the descriptions of the organization of the countless neighborhoods that create their own little worlds. I found it odd and eerie that he spent so much time closing out this piece talking about the fragile destructibility of th...more

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Apr 04, 2009 Lizzie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a great essay about New York! Written in 1949, it is slightly outdated & politically incorrect - but aside from that it captures the unmatchable fever of Manhattan. It made me laugh, it made me long for living in the city. E.B. White talks about the 3 types of New York - the native who was born here, the commuter, and "the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something." It is this type of person that gives New York it's passion. Since moving from the c...more

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Dec 30, 2009 Kris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitemen...more

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Apr 20, 2009 Nigar rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's obviously timelessly good. Here are my 'but's: By the time I got to this essay much of the content had been made into cliches - there was almost nothing left I hadn't heard before. The other but is that even though E. B. White claims otherwise, much of what he discerns for New York goes for any truly cosmopolitan metropolis. Neighborhoods as little cities? check. Everything changes but the city's spirit? check. Inhabitants have to be tolerant or else the city will explode? check. People com...more

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Jul 26, 2010 Kristin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2010, travel-ish

Thought of this essay as I discarded a very old edition of "Stuart Little" and decided to read it over a heat wave weekend. My dad gave it to me a few years ago when he (re)started school in NYC. He just told me that it was amazing. I only read half of it then (as my attention span dictates), but read it over and completely today. NYC 60 years ago was surely amazing and different, but I'd say the essence still remains (this is based solely on 3 years of being almost in NY as a transient, dreamer...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Joyce rated it 4 of 5 stars

Succinct, witty, and extremely dead-on for this city I have called home since birth. Was this really written over 60 years ago? It's almost scary how accurately White painted a picture of New York City. Scariest of all is his thought about New York's vulnerability:

"The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese ca...more

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Apr 11, 2010 Monica rated it 5 of 5 stars

E.B. White offers the best and final word on the questions people have been asking me for years. When others find out I lived in NYC, they ask one of two questions. "Did you like living there?" from those who are incredulous that anyone would want to live in Manhattan's concrete jungle. Or, from others, who think one would have to be crazy to abandon The City That Never Sleeps: "Why did you leave?" Though White wrote this essay in 1949, it still rings true today. Even more eerily so at the end w...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Edward rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: essays

White is brilliant here. His target--New York City--is explicit, which makes it easier to pay attention to his method. This is the mother of all "New York is the Greatest City in the World" memes, even though it depends on a world which had disappeared--even in White's time--for its impact. His achievement is unusual and unparalleled: He can make people who've never been to New York City nostalgic for its Golden Years.

Brief and economical, like all of White's work, the quality and consistency of...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Gina rated it 5 of 5 stars

I bought this book for a friend who has never been to NYC. I snagged it at The Strand outside book store next to Central Park. I immediately sat down on a bench to read it because I couldn't help it. I actually wanted the book for myself (but that wasn't the spirit in which it was purchased). I loved it. It is simply written, insightful, and White somehow predicts a terror attack that doesn't take place for 50+ years. He nails the vibe of the city and the types of people who inhabit and visit it...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Cristina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Absolutely brilliant. I'm not sure if this book makes me more impressed with New York or with EB White. EB White's essay describes the city both in terms of a local who is quite familiar with it and a visitor who is witnessing changes and new beauty and although published in 1949, to me it reads as though it could have been written yesterday. "Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's for...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I read this in the week leading up to my first trip to New York City last year. I loved it, then I visited the city and I loved the book even more. It's amazing to me that someone could so perfectly capture the magic of that city and write about it in a way that still rings true 60 years later.

The author, famous for his children's books, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, was living in the city in 1948 when he wrote the slim book. White understood that despite being filled with people, NYC can...more

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“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.” — 8 people liked it

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