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High life

Requiem for New York

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

New York

 
In the dark she still looks good. The mystery and magnetism linger until dawn, then you slowly see the lines and the harshness. As with a lady of the night who has smoked 10,000 cigarettes, the coming of the light is the enemy. New York ain’t what she used to be, that’s for sure.

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