Curious

NYC GIS


Three Writing Rules to Disregard
English is not easily ruled and regulated. It developed without codification, sucking up new constructions and vocabulary every time some foreigner set foot on the British Isles—­to say nothing of the mischief we Americans have wreaked on it these last few centuries—­and continues to evolve anarchically. It has, to my great dismay, no enforceable laws, much less someone to enforce the laws it doesn’t have.
   At times, that is maddening, but it really does show the flexibility and dynamism of the language.

Goodbye, New York. Adam Moss. New York magazine, that is.
Like the magazine auteurs who came before him, Mr. Moss was something of an outsider to New York. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Hewlett, N.Y., a town he called “‘Goodbye, Columbus’ nouveau riche.”
  I worked in Hewlett for 12 years, walked around it many afternoons during my lunch or dinner hour, and never thought it of quite that way.