‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.’ As ever, Oscar Wilde was right. Block your ears and squint your eyes, New York City could be a supersized Sydney – tall, green and bustling, with a historic precinct at one end and building works going on everywhere else (it’s the cranes that never sleep!).
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