13 Mar 07
A (Conservative) People's History of New York City
"In 1857 A.D., Central Park was built in an effort to encourage public homosexuality. In 1952 A.D., in an attempt to cripple the U.S. military, the United Nations settled on Manhattan's East Side, increasing the already cacophonous din of guttural non-American speech sounds on the streets of the new Babel."