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New York’s message: have a rich life

Started by Shripriya · 8 months ago

Paul Graham’s article about cities focuses on Cambridge, Silicon Valley and New York. Each city, according to Graham, sends a message:
Cambridge says “you should be smarter” - it is the city of intellect, the city of ideas.
Silicon Valley says &# ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • Prithvi

    1 year ago

    I think this is absolutely on point - there is a book called The Warhol Economy by Elizabeth Currid. She posits that art and culture are the source of New York's "competitive advantage" even though finance pays 20% of all the wages in the city. It's a New York-specific rendition of Jane Jacobs' ideas in The Death and Life of Great American Cities though Currid's policy prescriptions are a bit zany - being welcoming to night clubs!

    I think the proximity to history is thrilling as well-my freshman year in college I took a poetry class with Lisa New and we read Walt Whitman's poem while actually crossing Brooklyn ferry -

    Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
    Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
    Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!
    Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
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  • Shripriya

    1 year ago

    Prithvi - It is a beautiful poem with a whole slew of interesting odes to Manhattan. How cool that you were able to do it to match the title!

    And if Currid really recommends more night clubs, I shudder. We are seeing an influx of them around flatiron and it is not great...
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  • Rakesh Malik

    1 year ago

    Great post! A friend of mine move from NYC to Seattle about the same time that I moved from DC to Seattle (we met here), and she had a lot of good things to say about life in NYC. My experience there has been limited to visits, so outside the many museums and Broadway, I know very little about NYC that doesn't relate to cost of living and crowds.
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  • Rakesh

    11 months ago

    Cities are like people and the few mentioned here have very distinct personalities. To each his own. It all depends on who's looking and not what is being looked at.

    - Rakesh
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  • Shripriya

    11 months ago

    @Rakesh Malik - I often felt that NYC was a city that was better to visit than to live in. I've changed my opinion on that over the years. I think it is good for both.

    @Rakesh - It is true that different people will be happy in different cities. Or one can be happy in any city if you find the "side of its personality" that works for you.
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  • hindimovies

    5 months ago

    well just wanted to put some line here..
    Work for a cause and not for an applause..
    however if we see the practical part money is nessary so its the way it is..

    (sorry wasnt trying to be limelight just putting a point )
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