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https://scmp.com/article/736507/new-york-portrait-city

New York: Portrait of a City

New York: Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden Taschen HK$560

There are many who have captured New York's essence in words. Mark Twain called the city 'a splendid desert' while F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby, spoke of its 'wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world'. Maxim Gorky saluted a 'haughty pride'. Le Corbusier named it a 'beautiful catastrophe'. And E.B. White, in Stuart Little, noted, 'People in New York like to push each other'.