Quote of the Year:

 

“The new plaza (the now pedestrian only Broadway/Times Square), in the past few months has been a hot, smelly enclosure, filled with people sitting under patio umbrellas comparing their cell-phone screens, which is what humans do instead of picking ticks out of one another’s fur.”

 

From Lauren Collins, The New Yorker,  THE TALK OF THE TOWN,                September 14, 2009