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The American megacity that hosts the United Nations and, by extension, the global political center of the Crisis Era — Saul Durand walks its avenues, Da Shi escorts him out of the General Assembly, and the Wallfacer cameras flock here in droves.
New York in the trilogy is the political theater of humanity's response. Press conferences happen here. Wallfacers are paraded here. Da Shi resents the food, the noise, and the Times Square advertising for sleep-pod vacations. The city's tempo is wrong for the slow-moving cosmic horror unfolding above it, and that mismatch is part of the point.
The familiar skyline — Manhattan's grid of glass towers along the Hudson and East Rivers, broken by the green rectangle of Central Park, ringed by bridges and tunnels and the borough sprawl beyond. By the late Crisis Era the skyline has filled in considerably; by the Deterrence Era half of it is hibernation-storage facilities painted to look like office towers.