Essays
Joan Didion, “Goodbye To All That” (1967)
Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach,” New York Review of Books (October 23, 2014)
E.B. White, “This Is New York,” (1949)
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Spring 2018: Shaping the Future of New York City
a macaulay honors college seminar taught by prof. gaston alonso
Joan Didion, “Goodbye To All That” (1967)
Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach,” New York Review of Books (October 23, 2014)
E.B. White, “This Is New York,” (1949)
Continue reading “ITF Post: The Rise and Fall of New York City?”
Beginning on Sunday (shortly after reading Nixon’s opinion), I asked 1,016 New Yorkers: Where does “Upstate New York” begin?
When you ask 1,000-odd people the answer to a question, you get a lot of variation. Some is subtle, such as “Albany” vs. “near Albany.” Some is dismissive: Got a “do not care,” 40 “don’t know” replies and one “no.” Others made jokes: “my house,” “upstate someplace,” “Peoria,” “San Francisco.” Others identified very specific locations in and around New York City: 14th Street, the George Washington Bridge. Six people said that upstate started at 125th Street, meaning that the Bronx is in Upstate New York.
I love “no” because that’s my initial reaction, too, and “San Francisco” is a pretty good nod to the NYC-SF shared connections.
Read the rest of Bump’s article here.