My endless New York

Leaving New York never easy (come cantano anche i REM). Tok2Me segnala uno splendido articolo per gli amanti di New York, e anche per i non amanti di quella che comunque non si può non ritenere una città straordinaria, nel senso più stretto del termine.

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I CAME to New York University in 1987 on a whim. The Thatcherite assault on British higher education was just beginning and even in Oxford the prospects were grim. N.Y.U. appealed to me: by no means a recent foundation — it was established in 1831 — it is nevertheless the junior of New York City’s great universities. Less of a “city on a hill,” it is more open to new directions: in contrast to the cloistered collegiate worlds of Oxbridge, it brazenly advertises itself as a “global” university at the heart of a world city.