But like the experience of resilience and rebirth after the 9/11 attacks or the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, for many of us this experience will bind us even closer to the city, to our neighbors, to our families and to the experiment we are all engaged in here together. It seems to me that the true “golden rhythm” of New York — to commandeer Didion’s phrase — is not born of enchantment in its many pleasures but of the cycle of pain, loss and rebirth that we all endure together.

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