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New Yorkers by Craig Taylor review – extraordinary city stories


New Yorkers by Craig Taylor review – extraordinary city stories
Hari Kunzru
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Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
When I first moved to New York in 2008, I asked someone how long it takes to become a New Yorker. Oh, she said. About six months? It was a flip answer, but it had a grain of truth. As the port of entry for generations of immigrants, New York is proverbially the city that says, in the words of the Emma Lazarus poem on the plinth of the Statue of Liberty, “bring me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. As a new immigrant you have an identity here, a role to play in the great polyphonic comedy of city life. Everyone hates tourists, which is why most residents take elaborate precautions to avoid the area around Times Square, but the brand new New Yorker is a type, a tradition, and thus accorded a certain honour. He’s the one who emerges from the subway and doesn’t immedia ....

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