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High life

The beauty of fire escapes and the vanishing of Edward Hopper's New York

This is city that Fitzgerald's exuberant prose romanticised, or Gershwin's syncopations made jostle and throb

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

Autumn in New York: they even wrote a song about it that was a great hit 60 years ago. Last weekend the sky was awash in blue, Manhattan at its best, with Central Park gleaming in green and only the crowds marring the views. New York has changed dramatically these last 50 years, but what city has not? The place has got richer, but not better as far as the quality of life is concerned.

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