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Clay Felker

City of Ambition Will Rise From Ashes of 9/11

As the head of Chase Manhattan Bank, a great international power, David Rockefeller’s appointment book filled up as much as a year in advance. So I was surprised to receive an invitation to lunch with him at his headquarters near the southern tip of Manhattan.

It was the late 1960′s, and his passion then Read More

New York: Triumph of the Swarm

Perhaps the secret of why New York will eventually recover and continue to be the greatest city in the world is the secret of the swarm. The New York swarm is like the hordes of bees or ants who, lacking central direction and operating by instinct, move by the hundreds of thousands in all directions Read More