May
25
I’m not sure which half is more beautiful.
“Mannahatta” is more art book than typical natural history tome, and it’s all about envisioning: see the salt marsh that is now Delancey Street, the grassy plains of Harlem, the water moving slowly through what is now Times Square to the forests along the banks of the Upper West Side, which may have been untouched even by the Lenape Indians who used to live there. … “The goal of the project is to discover something new about a place we all know so well, whether we live in New York or see it on television, and, through that discovery, to alter our way of life. New York does not lack for dystopian visions of its future.”
