Ambition, Empire and Then

It being the holiday season, and today being Christmas (not that it really means anything in my book), I thought that I would just say some quick words in the quiet time when tourists do not plague the streets and only the real inhabitants remain (and those abandoned or stranded here prowl)- that New York has always been and always will be for me a city (the city) of dreams, a real city of ambition, and a place that I with infinite sadness but even greater joy intend to turn my back on.