The middle-management of Manhattan stared on, their faces as thin as credit cards.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  Money.

The mystery is why we even collect these figures; if we kept similar statistics for Manhattan Island,Park Avenue could layawake at night worrying about its trade deficit.

-Bartley, Robert Leroy
  On the balance of payments record. The Seven FatYears.

Close by the Hudson, inThe iron palaces of Art glare down On such as, wandering in the streets below, Perambulate in glamorous SoHo, A spot acclaimed by savant and by bard As forcing chamber of the Avant-Garde.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
MANHATTAN'S TOWN, 1984  'The SoHoiad', in the NewYork Review of Books.

What can ever be more statelyand admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', section 8.