Ken Okiishi’s (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010) is teetering on the brink of the following phenomena: Manhattan-as-shopping-mall-going-out-of-business; the traffic of artists and culture between NYC and Berlin in the 2000’s; the malaise of transnational bourgeois cultural life; the failure of communica- tion, translation, and dating; and the crisis of subjectivity of those of us who will be thirty-something in the 2010’s. In (Goodbye to) Manhattan, the Manhattan that circulates as an assemblage of neurotic ideas and narcissistic fantasies is brought to the foreground, taking literally the grandiose analogies that have led to questions such as, is Berlin the new New York? Is this about ME?