He adored New York City.

He idolized it all out of proportion.

Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion.

Better.

To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

Uh, no, let me start this over… That’s the way Woody Allen begins his 1979 comedy Manhattan, with Allen’s writer character Isaac Davis fumbling for a way to describe his New York.

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