They say this is the city that never sleeps but there is one moment, at the waking of each day, when a certain kind of lull descends as the moon says goodbye and the sun has yet to say hello. For a moment, so fleeting that it often goes totally unnoticed, the city is asleep and nothing moves. Then the sunlight begins to pour out over the horizon and the day resumes as though something extraordinary has not just taken place.
