The illustrator, graphic designer, cook, writer, and born-and-bred New Yorker Tamara Shopsin quotes this passage-drawn from White’s essay Here is New York-in her new memoir, Arbitrary Stupid Goal. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.”įor White, that last New York, “the city of final destination, the city that is a goal,” was the greatest of all. Second, there is the New York of the commuter-the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. “There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. “There are roughly three New Yorks,” E.B.
