Needles of Culture intersect from my point of view in Central Park.
New York City is more than a graduate school, you never graduate. All you have to do is get out of your house and you have everything you need to know about the world, if only you know to look and learn how to see.
New York City is also a teacher of the fleeting, it is a teacher of eternity, and the human condition, of the momentary, of the acquisition and subsequent discardment of objects. Whatever was in the best of shops ultimately ends up in the landfill.
New York City also teaches the value of things, a churro is $3, but 200 meters south it is $4. And the value of a homeless person is zero.
In its great galleries and museums I saw the best the world can offer, priceless works of art money can't buy.