{"id":225,"date":"2009-05-05T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebulous-oyster.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:05:46","slug":"new-york-new-york-big-city-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/new-york-new-york-big-city-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York, Big City of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8122\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8122\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermargulis.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-york-540807_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"The American Society for Journalists and Authors (ASJA) holds a writers conference in New York every year.\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-york-540807_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-york-540807_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-york-540807_960_720-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The American Society for Journalists and Authors (ASJA) holds a writers conference in New York every year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New York New York<br \/>\nBig city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennifermargulis.net\/book-proposal-dream-sometimes-nightmare\/\">dreams<\/a><br \/>\nEverything in New York<br \/>\nAin\u2019t always what it seems<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t be fooled if you come from out of town<br \/>\nI\u2019m down by law<br \/>\nAnd I know my way around<\/p>\n<p>Too much. Too many people.<\/p>\n<p>Ut uh, ut ut ut ut ut, ut uh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never seen so many people in one place. Racing around town as I did the other day, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/a-brief-history-of-jaywalking-in-nyc\">j-walking<\/a> and practically hugging the yellow taxi cabs that screech to a halt for red lights in the middle of the cross walk, I became one of a teeming, seething, pulsating swarm of humanity; a hive; a small animate thing in a nameless faceless multitude.<\/p>\n<p>My god.<\/p>\n<p>New York.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so familiar to me\u2014my dad was born in Brooklyn and we used to visit my grandparents in Mt Vernon\u2014yet so completely foreign and exotic, now that we live on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermargulis.net\/project-discover-ashland-oregon\/\">West Coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hurried way New Yorkers talk \u201cI\u2019llhav\u2019theusualMel\u201d fills me with a strange nostalgia; the faces of every shade and hue of \u201cskin color\u201d with a strange wonder; and the tall buildings like something out of a futurist Japanese anim\u00e9 movie with a strange sense of doom.<\/p>\n<p>Published: May 5, 2009<br \/>\nLast update: January 23, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York New York Big city of dreams Everything in New York Ain\u2019t always what it seems But don\u2019t be fooled if you come from out of town I\u2019m down by law And I know my way around Too much. Too many people. Ut uh, ut ut ut ut ut, ut uh\u2026 I\u2019ve never seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[104,14,8162],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York, New York, Big City of Dreams &mdash; Jennifer Margulis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New York. I\u2019ve never seen so many people in one place. 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