8 Million Stories, 32 Reasons, 1 Big Apple App
Photo credit: Film still from The Naked City
"There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." That iconic phrase gravely ended each episode of Naked City, the gritty black-and-white late '50s crime drama and precursor to Law and Order, CSI, NYPD Blue, and others of that ilk. Each week the show presented a story of one New Yorker and his or her untimely end. It captured the mood of the city, the glamor, the grime, the excitement, the fun, the fear – the way that people inhabit the city, how they interact, how they lived, and yes, how they died. There are so many stories in New York, just make a trip to work, to dinner, to a show, to a ball game, and you'll see them happening live and in color on the streets, every minute of every day. It's what brought me here, it's what brings so many of us here - we want to write our own New York story.