Gotham

When asked to sum up Gotham City, the guy who wrote Batman described it as "Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November." And as anyone who’s ever lived in Manhattan will tell you, the month of November is basically your cover charge for getting to live in New York the rest of the year. The wind barrels down the alleyways like it’s genuinely pissed off at you, the homeless population multiplies like someone fed them after midnight and exhaust-stained water clings to every square inch of the city. The only thing that gets you through are memories of cold beers at warm, summer beer gardens.

In Gotham there are no beer gardens and it’s never July. Just cold, dark, November all year long. So it’s not entirely surprising that the city's favorite past time seems to be putting on clown makeup and killing people.

--Cracked article