New York: A Mod Portrait of the City

NEW Y ORK U n i v e r s e

Zdenêk Mahler Vladimír Fuka

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New York is not a museum; New York is a constantly moving current.

A switchboard.

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. . . and tunnels for underground trains.

New Yorkers try to keep a map of the subway in their heads, but most commuters only know their own train routes.

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Can New York be overwhelming?

It depends on the person.

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The notion that New York is like an anthill filled with ants rushing here and there or a beehive buzzing with constant activity—that someone coming here will be swallowed up and lost—just isn’t true.

Just try to get lost here. You can’t.

New York is carefully planned, filled with lined-up rows and right angles— just like a numbered chessboard, avenues extend vertically, streets cross horizontally. It’s a game that never stops. You just need to know the pieces.

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It’s amazing how it all works!

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new York is connected by bridges,

slender as bows, like harps of gods or pterodactyls fossilized in midflight.

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Verrazano-Narrows Bridge: Until 1981 its main span was the longest in the world, hung from seventy-story pillars.

Brooklyn Bridge: A treasure handed down from father to son, a triumph about which songs have been written.

George Washington Bridge: A necklace made of lightbulbs whose two levels host more than 280,000 cars each day.

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Or you can take a cruise . . .

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