![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Manhattan may be in the drink, but hardy New Yorkers simply get on with it, traversing the new canals in ferries and souped-up speedboats, farming fresh fish and seafood in the streets and avenues downtown, and attending water-sumo wrestling matches in the illicit subterranean drinking dungeons in the former subway. Even over a hundred years in the future, where melting polar ice caps have caused worldwide floods and left half of Manhattan under water-the premise of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140-the great city of New York is still a thriving metropolis, setting the bar for all the so-called ‘intertidal’ cities of the world. New York, New York, it’s a helluva town! So goes the song, and from Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, it’s certainly a city that’s inspired writers and artists for generations, and its prominence in media and finance has made it the capital of the world. ![]()
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