[This essay comprises the Foreword to 1000 New York City Buildings by Jorg Brockmann and Bill Harris, Black Dog & Leventhal. May 2002] Tall masts of Mannahatta! Superb-faced Manhattan! Beautiful hills of Brooklyn! Vast, unspeakable show and lesson! My city! Has anyone since Walt Whitman done justice to the ecstatic inventory of New York? This [...]