“I think things changed after 9/11, when the two most powerful teeth were knocked out of the mouth of the skyline. The mayor felt this impetus to rebuild New York bigger and better than ever. Rebuilding the stadiums, ripping down the MoMA, a holy museum, to make it a huge corporative space—well, that’s not what New York is about. It’s about the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor, come if you have a dream. This city is not supposed to be the biggest, the baddest, the most expensive, the hippest. Now the kids go to Brooklyn.”
“What about Newark, yeah, maybe that’s it.”
Patti Smith
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