Commenter ‘Frank Sinatra’ noted below that “your constant love for NYC is a bit much to take.” Actually, I thought I was being more descriptive than loving – but, sure, as a visitor, NYC is a very different experience for me than for those who, for better and worse, actually live there.
Still, my admiration is not unlimited – particularly when I see something like this:
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This is how one of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions – one with a mandate to feature urban design and architecture! – treats one of the streets in midtown.
Yup, the Museum of Modern Art successfully killed off most of the south side of West 54th between 5th and 6th Avenues. Bad, MOMA, bad.
I don’t find your observations fulsome (to use a word correctly that most people seem to be using wrongly these days). The critic I read about architecture, in NYC and elsewhere, is Martin Filler, who writes mainly for the NY Review of Books. Google him for some of his articles, such as one on MOMA.