"These folks were never indispensable to city government and they are not now," said Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, speaking at the fourth City Hall news conference before noon yesterday on the matter.
Similarly, Whyte praised human scale streets, walk-ability, and argued that subtle urban details, such as shop widows, porticoes, steps, and doorways, were indispensable for city liveability [13].
Whatever public art is, plenty of nonprofits, federal organizations and private investors believe it is something indispensable to city life despite the economic recession, which has proved quite cruel to museums, auction houses and artists alike.
"We want to become the first large-scale, flexible contemporary ensemble in the United States that is as important and indispensable as a city's symphony orchestras, opera companies and theater companies".
But that network of financial resources is precisely what makes Mayor Giuliani indispensable to the city right now, said Fred Siegel, a professor of urban history at Cooper Union in Manhattan.
After all his words about the need to return to normalcy, he says we must do something that is abnormal, because it seems he believes that he is indispensable to the city's recovery.
"We want to become the first large-scale, flexible contemporary ensemble in the United States that is as important and indispensable as a city's symphony orchestras, opera companies and theater companies," she said in an interview with The New York Times in 2007.
President Bush follows in this tradition as he calls on Americans to battle a vast, worldwide enemy -- an enemy of apocalyptic proportions that hates "our freedoms" -- by appealing to them as representatives of an indispensable nation: the city on a hill.
To store owners, the services of cats are indispensable in a city where the rodent problem is serious enough to be documented in a still popular two-minute video clip on YouTube from late February (youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws) of rats running amok in a KFC/Taco Bell in Greenwich Village.
In Wednesday's season opener against Sacramento, the Hornets began their ambitious, obstacle-laden attempt to persuade locals that the relocated N.B.A. franchise desires to be as indispensable to this city as the Saints, the French Quarter and red beans and rice.
