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> [“Anything of even mildly antiquarian or historic interest was the target of destruction, and anyone who deplored the way the city was remaking itself from a sleepy seaport into a bustling capital of finance was regarded as a hopeless sentimentalist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/anything-of-even-mildly-antiquarian-or-historic-interest-was-the/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

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## More by Stephen Birmingham

> [“New York horses were driven until they expired, and as many as a hundred horses collapsed daily in the streets. It was often a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/new-york-horses-were-driven-until-they-expired-and-as-many-as-a/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“also introduced another controversial feature—an elevator, described as a “perpendicular railway intersecting each story.” Theretofore, elevators had been installed only in a few of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/also-introduced-another-controversial-feature-an-elevator-described/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/what-is-known-as-success-assumes-nearly-as-many-aliases-as-there-are/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“New York, in the late nineteenth century, was also an astonishingly dirty city for a variety of reasons. Only about half of New York’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/new-york-in-the-late-nineteenth-century-was-also-an-astonishingly/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/how-new-york-has-fallen-off-during-the-last-forty-years-its-intellect/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“Isabella Boyer Singer, the wife with whom Singer had spent most of his final years, in her claim to be the legal widow. Isabella…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/isabella-boyer-singer-the-wife-with-whom-singer-had-spent-most-of-his/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“seventeen rooms with six bathrooms and eight working fireplaces for $650. In 1884 these Dakota rents had seemed substantial. But the astonishing thing was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/seventeen-rooms-with-six-bathrooms-and-eight-working-fireplaces-for/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“Sophisticated New Yorkers complained that their city had none of the exuberance and spectacle of Paris—no Place de l’Étoile, no Place de la Concorde,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/sophisticated-new-yorkers-complained-that-their-city-had-none-of-the/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“when America entered the era of the automobile, there was a noticeable tendency for the affluent of American cities to build their homes on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/when-america-entered-the-era-of-the-automobile-there-was-a-noticeable/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“In the summer the whole family would take the night boat to Albany. You left in the evening and arrived in the morning. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/in-the-summer-the-whole-family-would-take-the-night-boat-to-albany/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/a-great-many-people-go-after-success-simply-for-the-shiny-prizes-it/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“Anything of even mildly antiquarian or historic interest was the target of destruction, and anyone who deplored the way the city was remaking itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/anything-of-even-mildly-antiquarian-or-historic-interest-was-the/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/what-is-known-as-success-assumes-nearly-as-many-aliases-as-there-are-2/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/the-public-could-be-made-to-want-anything-if-it-were-sold-to-them-the/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

> [“During the summers the building was empty,” she reminisced. “Everybody went away, to Long Island, or Westchester, or the Adirondacks, or the Jersey Shore.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-birmingham/during-the-summers-the-building-was-empty-she-reminisced-everybody/)

[Stephen Birmingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-birmingham/)

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