Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 26, 1956
NEW YORK
You Stand in Times Square
C And Wait for the World To Go 3By
By LOUISE TYOR She has the historical atmos-
Daily Associate Editor phere of Boston, but with a de-
O THE VISITOR the three ided difference, for atmosphere is
T only a part of New York's charm,
words New York City connote but almost all of Boston's.
rushing crowds of people, blind- She takes the metropolitan aura
ing, flashing lights, taxi-cabs of San Francisco and makes it
driven at break-neck speed and cosmopolitan. She has the sweep
unintlliible accents, of Los Angeles without it's sprawl-
He has come to New York ing unevenness. She has the big
mainly for entertainment and city fHavor of Chicago, but on a
shopping, and with the precon- crand and far-reaching scale.
ceived notion that the city is a She is a bit of the best, and the
rude and impersonal colossus, worst, of every city, combined
When he leaves it, he does so with with a unique personality of her
the socially-accepted comment that own which makes her distinctive
New York is "a wonderful place in herself.
to visit, but I'd hate to live there."
-He has seen the neon signs, the A ND while the outsider senses
museums, Fifth Avenue by day, the paradox of individuality
Broadway at night. He has en- and universality, only the New
joyed the crowds - which were Yorker can fully appreciate it.
more a part of his pre-New York For the New Yorker, as part of
conception of New York than an the city, sees all aspects of it-
actuality - but he will tell the there is so much more to it than
i-Day -John Hlrtzel folks back home that they were lower Fifth Avenue and Broadway
NEW YORK: more of everything dreadful httesgtse ee a
_e that the sight-seer never has a
He has hurried from theater to chance to appreciate.
theater in order to "take in" as
many shows as possible and has TEW YORK itself is composed
stood in front of the New York of five boroughs-Manhattan,
Times Building waiting for the The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and
wo Richmond. Each -has a govern-
And thus he has seen New York. mental set-up of its own, but to-
e hasnt thought aut why gether they make up New York
liked it, but he did, and there isg huty h
something about the city which Ciy.
wil rw imbckagi. This fact may come as a shock
will draw him back again, to tourists who think of New York
PERHAPS the reason behind her as Manhattan only.
appeal is that New York is Manhattan's 22 square miles
ameca'scommoNenomior.looks westward to the Hudson Riv-
f America's Common denominatr.
er, over the Palisades and into New
Jersey; eastward over Brooklyn
New Yorker Louise Tyor and Queens to Long Island and
write about her city with more then the ocean; southward into the
respect than the metropolis is bay; and northward over The
generally treated to. The ar- Bronx and Westchester County up
tile shows the life behind the state.
"rude and impersonal colossus." But it also looks down upon
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