"Colossus" Response

"'City Limits' The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts", by Colson Whitehead, is about how New York City is broken up into parts that creates it into a city such as the subway, walking around in NYC, and leaving memory tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge. 
A sentence that caught me while reading this essay was when he said, "Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves" (9-10). This tells me that wherever we are at or wherever we lived and leave to, we are still a part of New York no matter how many times anything changes. When we change, New York will still be New York and it will not change. They might create a new building, a shop, or an apartment near or on the place that was not any of those, it is still New York. Whitehead mentioned that our marks (of being there, walking pass there, living there, etc) at a certain spot of New York City might not be visibly there but a memory that will always last there forever. The place you used to take small coffee breaks at might now be a salon store or the restaurant that you used to eat a lot at is now a new building being created for a huge company. New York City is a memory lane for those that walked or passed (by taxi, subway, car, etc) through it today, days ago, months ago, or years ago. 
In New York City, we won't know who we encounter or when we will encounter someone we know or might not know. Maybe someone you might meet today might've been your next door neighbor years ago. Maybe you'll encounter a friend on the subway randomly without even planning it. Whitehead mentioned in the essay about the relationship through people. Like on the subway, someone that's either crippled, pregnant, or old need a seat to rest on. Some people might be kind enough to move out of the seat and allow them to sit in their spot. Others might just ignore them and just sit there until they get off their destination. Whitehead also talks about other encounters on the subway: people that smells, someone finding the other sex attractive, ones that looks suspicious, etc. These people helps create the subway to become part of the city. 
Everything that Whitehead talks about is him telling us what creates a city. The goods and bads of NY creates a city. The people creates the city. A memory creates a city. Walking on a famous path or a random path creates a city.