The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
NEW YORK? New York, oh how we Irish think we know its streets and avenues and blocks, or perhaps even a borough or two of it. We’ve visited on holidays, gone on shopping, architecture or art gallery breaks in the boom, mucked in with J1 visas, gone underground illegally and overground and into skyscrapers on upward career trajectories.
We might have fallen in love there, or at the least fallen in love with it, and come back again enchanted, informed, enriched (or, on this reviewer’s first, grim-times c1978 NY visit, robbed) and frustrated. We’ve stayed put there, put down roots there and made this great, true-forged melting pot city our own, Erin go Bragh and all that Blarney baloney.
