Desperately seeking New York’s grime and glamour

Susan Seidelman, the director of the cult feminist classic Desperately Seeking Susan, recalls the city’s heyday – and how she helped make Madonna a star‘New York isn’t a city for nostalgia,” Susan Seidelman says to me, matter-of-factly, as we chat over lunch in the lobby bar of Manhattan’s Ace hotel. “It’s not a city, like Paris or Rome, that rests on a glorified past. It’s a city that has no pity. It doesn’t stop fo