No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

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Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York. Doubleday, 2003, pt. 1.