When I exiled myself from the provincial wilds of Toronto to attend Columbia’s School of Journalism in the mid-1980s, I was immediately in awe of “the City,” as anyone from New York knew to call it. I’d grown up with my nose pressed against the glass of American pop culture, on the lore of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue… And here they were, with actual street signs bearing those very names! Now here I was in this wonderful town where the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, dating the