On winter afternoons, from my office, there were sunsets across Manhattan when the smog itself shimmered and glowed. . . . Despite its difficulties, which become more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this city, which finally came down to its people no other place in America had quite such people and they would not allow you to go stale in the end they were its triumph and its reward.
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