Manhattan '45 Quotes

“Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.”
― Jan Morris, Manhattan '45

“This city, with its immensely long straight avenues, its right-angled cross streets and its towers all about, provided an incomparable stage for the fire-fighter's art. Even in this exciting place nothing was more stirring than the charge of the fire engines through midtown on their way to a calamity.”
― Jan Morris, Manhattan '45