Joey Bada$$, SGB Media
Friday, April 29, 2022
Product of New York
"I carry New York with me everywhere I go. It's almost written across my forehead. I am a product of New York."
Joey Bada$$, SGB Media
Joey Bada$$, SGB Media
Thursday, April 28, 2022
New York is a Lie
"New York is a lie, I will tell you. Each city is its own lie, but New York is a whopper. I don't expect you to listen about that. Everyone needs to learn it in their own time."
Lisa Taddeo, Animal
Lisa Taddeo, Animal
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Getting New York
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Irving Place |
"New York is one of my favourite places, but when I first went it wasn’t quite what I imagined. Then I think I discovered its secret, which is that there are an awful lot of very anonymous-looking brownstone buildings that seem quite drab but, when you go inside, are fantastic. It’s either a coffee shop or a restaurant or a museum. I remember being worried, thinking: 'Am I the first person that doesn't get New York?' Then suddenly it clicked and I realised, 'I love this city.' I think it's a fantastic place."
Mark Gatiss, High Life
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Us and the Rest of the World
Monday, April 25, 2022
One Taste of the Apple
"All the kids decide the city with its winos and grifters and noise and dirty streets is totally horrid—gross, as kids today would put it—except for a boy who knows at once that New York is the city of his dreams and destiny; the place that will allow him to soar above and beyond the lowest common denominator. One taste of the Apple, and this boy is gloriously seduced and corrupted."
Thomas Adcock, Grief Street
Thomas Adcock, Grief Street
Friday, April 22, 2022
New York is Everything
"New York is Europe, Asia, America. It's everything."
Vivian Maier, Vivian Maier Developed
Vivian Maier, Vivian Maier Developed
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Old Friend
"New York is like an old friend. It has its moods. But I know them all. "
Yoko Ono, Twitter
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Love Affair
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Little Italy |
"In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It's like a love affair–you don't hunger for it till it's out of reach, and when you've had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of it is unfamiliar, but oh my God, the beauty of it."
Connie Eisenstat, New York Magazine
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Illusion and Reality
"New York is a city where illusion and reality coalesce into the viscous paste, holding larger-than-life souls together."
Brian Kannard, Steinbeck: Citizen Spy
Monday, April 18, 2022
Heaven on Earth
"The streets of New York are the closest thing to heaven on earth. Here, you are not scurrying from one place to another as fast as your feet will carry you. You are on display. Without her outcasts, the metropolis would be a very dull place indeed. To succeed in heaven, you must avoid the shadows. If the sunny side of the street is full, walk in the road. And on no account learn the language. The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."
Quentin Crisp (John Hurt), An Englishman in New York
Friday, April 15, 2022
Surprising City
"The allure of Everywhere Else is very attractive until he realizes that Everywhere Else can never surprise him like New York."
Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Disappointing Niceness
"We went out and it's, 'Ahhhh! There's steam coming out of the streets!' We thought, 'This is nuts! This is New York!' We went up to somebody's house to ask for directions, hoping they were going to pull a gun on us, and instead they're like, 'Oh, you're not from here?! You should check out this place and that place.' Everybody was really nice. It was really disappointing."
Tim Goldsworthy, Meet Me in the Bathroom
Tim Goldsworthy, Meet Me in the Bathroom
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Place to Live
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Own Theater
"Every space in New York is its own theater. If the city offers absolution in anonymity, it also offers fleeting fame in the simple act of walking around."
Vivian Yee, The New York Times
Vivian Yee, The New York Times
Monday, April 11, 2022
Number One
"New York is the big time. If you are No. 1 in New York, that usually means you are No. 1 in the nation."
Alec Cumming and Peter Kanze, New York City Radio
Alec Cumming and Peter Kanze, New York City Radio
Friday, April 8, 2022
Embracing the New
"New York is a city that seems dedicated to the proposition that change is its own reward. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose may hold sway in Paris (and may explain why all those bored Parisians are scrambling to get apartments here), but New Yorkers thrive on novelty. New buildings, new restaurants, new styles, new art, new celebrities, new villains, new neighborhoods— all are embraced such fervor that the relics of past enthusiasms are hardly noticed."
Marilyn Bethany, New York Magazine
Marilyn Bethany, New York Magazine
Thursday, April 7, 2022
City of Immigrants
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
The Wrong Path
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
New York's Liveliness
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Grand Central Terminal |
"Sure, New York’s all-the-time energy is a cliché, so is the whole melting pot thing, but they’re the kind of clichés that exist because they’re true. Do other cities have a lot going on? Yes! Do we care? No. As far as we’re concerned New York’s liveliness is second to none, and bragging about it is our compensation for tiny bathrooms."
Mark Fedeli, Tablet Hotels Magazine
Mark Fedeli, Tablet Hotels Magazine
Monday, April 4, 2022
New Times
"New York is a vertical city, under the sign of the new times. It is a catastrophe with which a too hasty destiny has overwhelmed courageous and confident people, though a beautiful and worthy catastrophe."
Le Corbusier, quoted in Paradigm Islands
Friday, April 1, 2022
Foundation of Time
"New York is a theory of a city built on the foundation of time alone. Manhattan is an hour, or a century, with the woodworm of the subways boring through it, eating it away, second by second."
Gilberto Owen, quoted in Latin American Literature at the Millennium
Gilberto Owen, quoted in Latin American Literature at the Millennium
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