Who doesn’t go to in Covid time New York could travel, watched Netflix Pretend it’s a city, by writer and humorist Fran Lebowitz. Yet everyone is saying that this city is over. That is, everyone, except real New Yorkers. And Frank.
New York through the eyes of Fran Lebowitz
“Some people are very concerned about the idea that New York is over, but I laugh about it. It’s a ridiculous idea. Everything always changes in New York. That is the essence of a city. There is not a square foot of New York that is the same as when I came here in 1970.’
“What makes someone a New Yorker in my opinion is the moment you first get angry because something has gone missing. When I first moved to New York, I often took a bus that ran down Eighth Avenue. There was a bank on the corner of 42nd Street. Now that was a neighborhood I sometimes didn’t go to for weeks. One day I looked out the window and found that the sofa was no longer there. The building had been demolished. Let me tell you I’d never been there, but still I thought, hey, where’s the bank? What happened to the bank? The couch has to go back. That couch belongs there. So something like this can happen to you if you’ve just lived here for two weeks.’
“But what makes you a true New Yorker is the moment it really bothers you for the first time. Change is an intrinsic part of New Yorkership, otherwise you’ll go crazy.’
Want to know why, according to Fran Lebowitz, Donald Trump isn’t a true New Yorker, even though he was born there? And why she never sits on a terrace in New York, but prefers to dine in an air-conditioned restaurant? You can read it in the new icon issue of Harper’s Bazaar, which is now in (online) stores!
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