“You Are a New Yorker When What Was There Before is More Real and Solid Than What is Here Now”

It’s time for me to post a link to the Colson Whitehead essay that I link to every day this year, from the 11/11/01 “Rebuilding New York” issue of the New York Times Magazine. I can’t resist. It will always be my favorite essay about New York, and it always makes me cry. Usually makes me bawl actually. I don’t think I should read it this year though. It’ll make me not want to leave New York…