![]() “Most people are in New York because they need evidence-in large quantities-of human expressiveness and they need it not now and then, but every day. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” -John Updike, multi-Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction writing (1932-2009)ġ8. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)ġ7. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” ―F. ‘A reality shaped around your own desires’ -there is something sociopathic in that ambition.” -Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach” from The New York Review of Books (2014)ġ6. “You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring (look up! go down that weird block!), the surprising specificity that you can find (button stores! Filipino barbecue!) and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans.” -Rony Vardi, founder of Catbird jewelry shop in Williamsburg quoted by The Points Guy (2018)ġ5. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” -Nora Ephron, author and filmmaker this is from her autobiographical novel Heartburn (1983)ġ4.“New York is a city that plays hard to get. The Queens native said this to Time Out New York in 2019ġ3. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” -Awkafina, actress. “Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. The city drags itself awake on subway straps and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.” -Maya Angelou, “Awaking in New York” Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983)ġ2. “Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” -Bill Murray, actor and Brooklyn bartenderġ1. “My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. “New York is a sucked orange” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Massachusetts-based leader of the transcendentalist movement (1803-82)ġ0. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” -James Baldwin, Harlem-born writer and activist (1924-87)ĩ. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” -Simone de Beauvoir, French intellectual who greatly influenced feminist existentialism (1908-86)Ĩ. Now that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advances.” -David Dinkins, mayor of NYC 1990-1993ħ. “Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. ![]() ” -Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down” The Element of Freedom (2010)Ħ. Hear it for New York, New York, New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. ![]() Baby I'm from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. “Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. ” -Madonna “I Love New York” Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)ĥ. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend.” -Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City (1998)Ĥ. “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. Clean is not enough.” -Fran Lebowitz, author, thinker and actor (from a 1978 People magazine interview)ģ. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. ” -Dorothy Parker, writer and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table (1893-1967)Ģ. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. They’re emblazoned on plexiglass partitions attached to tables throughout the spaces as an extra little show of our hometown pride.ġ. Like these quotes about the city? You can also find them at Time Out Market New York, currently open on the DUMBO waterfront. Luckily, plenty of famous luminaries have given it a go-from famous writers to politicians, activists and many, many fictional characters. (And we would know! We’re constantly writing about it every single day!) However, it’s hard to capture in a few short words just what makes this metropolis so special. While others may be predicting the city’s demise, we know the five boroughs are here to stay.
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