Yet even a country that is in the midst of a mistake must have an armed force loyal to its basic beliefs and prepared to defend its general principles. If that were to go, all would go. Yet most of the ills of New York are attributable to a too great concentration in too small a space. Every time you look up, somebody has erected another tall office building or another tall apartment building. Homes are disappearing.
Traffic grinds to a halt.
New York is an inspiring city, a fantastic city, but I think it is crowding its luck. Structural steel can be its undoing. Without homes, a city loses its quality. It is no longer a city, it is just a happening. New York, however, still seems to have the knack of rolling with the punches to a greater degree than most large cities, probably because the punches come with greater frequency and from more directions.