Another definition of a New Yorker (Potter, Taylor: live, racism, reviews)

[Cida]

This is from a review by James Barron of two new books:

The City That Won’t Shut Up Fills Two New Books With Its Babble

NEW YORKERS: A City and Its People in Our Time
By Craig Taylor

NAMES OF NEW YORK: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

It is tempting to bend Justice Potter Stewart’s famous line and say that I know a New Yorker when I see one. Or to expand on the definition proposed in a letter to the editor printed in The New York Times in the 1980s: “A New Yorker is a guy who lives, and lets live.” A New Yorker puts up with everything that is wrong here — inherent inequality, inherent racism, maddening inertia, even sheer cantankerousness — but still finds it alluring.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/b...-schapiro.html

[Hannah5555]

First book sounds pretty awful, except for a couple of colorful stories, written by someone who's been here all of 7 years.

Second book is more interesting, might be up 7th's alley as an adjunct to his Off the Beaten Path thread.

[Cida]

Funny, for me, the first sounds more interesting.

But, either way, nice that you took a moment to read the reviews.

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by Cida

Funny, for me, the first sounds more interesting.

But, either way, nice that you took a moment to read the reviews.