“New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It’s a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren’t a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.” 
Jordan Peele, Esquire Magazine

Unrealistic Idea

"Movies and television shows set in New York have a reputation for being visually unrealistic, and they can get away with it because the idea of New York held by real people is so unrealistic. And I'm not talking about someone in a midwestern town watching syndicated episodes of Friends. I'm talking about the people who actually live here."
Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"New York is unruly; it is a trojan horse, its belly full not of terrorists, but of insomniac workaholic immigrants all on a heavy dose of stimulus."
Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think?