New York: City of Infinite Drama

"The first characteristic of New York which impresses the stranger from abroad is it's atmosphere of breathless haste, it's pervading sense of life keyed to an abnormal tension. The acute discomfort of the morning and evening rush hour, when streets are gorged with trampling thousands of toilers, and every car is jammed with close-packed human freight, is only one manifestation of the city's ruling passion. Everywhere and all the time, the surge and roar o traffic goes on, varying only in degree; everywhere is the same feverish energy, the same impatience over a minute's loss."—Anonymous.