New York Final Destination

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"No one should come to New York to live," declared E.B. White in his 1948 essay about the city, "unless he is willing to be lucky." For White, the greatest New York, the one "that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition," was "the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something . . . the city of final destination, the city that is a goal." Once again, the city has become primarily, passionately a city of destination, the goal of millions who want to be rich, or to stop being poor. All over the planet, people who have never had a whiff of New York are determined to become New Yorkers. A nice place to visit? They want to live here, with all their hearts.

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