A consistent blue sky hung over a teeming city that grew warm and dry beneath a radiant sun.

Winter forgotten, spring an overgrown boy, the whole town underwent a subtle change.

Its rather sullen winter expression melted into a smile, and all its foreign characteristics and color broke out once more under the influence of sun and blue sky.

Alone among the great cities of the world stands New York for contrariety and contrast.

Its architecture is as various as its citizenship, its manners are as dissimilar as its accents, its moods as diverse as its climate.