NEW YORK — Of all the unforeseeable marriages on an inexplicable planet, here’s the one between that great-big loudmouth, New York, and the chill dude from the third-largest city in unobtrusive Latvia, a country with almost two million people, fewer than Brooklyn. Here they are at 31 months, and here any streaming electronic graphic would show them on uptick.
Three seasons of this marriage between skyscraper and skyscrapers, and he’s still looking out his skyborne window and saying, “It’s breathtaking every time I look.” He’s reeling off the list of sights that once appeared only on screens and saying, “As a kid, you’re dreaming of how it is in person, but now it’s like living in a dream, almost.