The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.