In “Here is New York,” E.B. White discusses much that is singular to New York but also much that is true of most great cities. For example, he describes a resident’s trek from the lower east side to an uptown apartment, a distance of three or four miles, “like going three times around the world”(698). This could be said of a walk in almost any great city such as Paris, London, or Hong Kong, a result of the necessity to have a functioning neighborhood in every three blocks. On the contrary, White points out some unique attributes of New York City. New York is the city where “young worshipful beginners” come to be near their literary, theatrical, and artistic heroes (702). There is arguably no other city with the concentration and draw of great thinkers, and certainly no other with the intellectual reputation of New York. Yes, the city possesses attributes common to all cities, but no city is so preceded by its reputation as an intellectual hotbed.