Here is New York by E.B. White is a story of an older New York that is very similar to the modern New York. Replace any of the names of the stores named to modern ones and the scene is practically still the same.

In the book White writes that the tallest plushiest offices lie the crummiest slims. This is still true today as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. He wrote about it then saying that schools and hospitals are overcrowded and inadequate or underfunded as we know that they are today in 2014.

I think E.B. White captured New York’s exact lifestyle and although the times and names and faces are changed, the lifestyle is the same.

He captures the marvels as well as the faults of New York then and now. I would publish the book the same way he has except the names would be different and there would be a mention of the 1984-Orwellian police state that New York is in since September 11th, 2001.