"I said, 'O.K., I'll go up with you and we'll go out to some proven places,' " Wake recalled.
In short: NYC FC have proven their place amongst the upper echelon of MLS teams.
They prefer to wait until shows are proven at places like Theater Under the Stars in Houston, which has just moved into a dazzling $100-million home designed especially to stage lavishomesicals.
By afternoon's end, though, Citi Field would prove the place to be.
But Zankel Hall is proving a place not conducive to amplification.
It's also physically — as the horrific events in Aurora once more proves — a place of terrifying vulnerability.
They worry, with good reason, that they won't be able to prove this place is theirs, if someone 'high ranking' tries to take it.
But it was Frame, a new area introduced by Frieze's directors, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, that proved the place to hang out.
But there are still challenges out there; ones that would prove his place in the pantheon mattered as much as his bank balance.
Standing there, I try to remember the days when I would have been sitting in a car like that, full of inarticulate resentments and desperate to prove my place in the world..
