Williamsburg Bridge
"New York is known as a place where you're always running toward something, whether it be at a meeting, the subway station, or a particular goal — in New York, you're always ready for the next thing."
Silvana Reyes, Buzzfeed
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Always Running
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
New York Imagery
"New York is always confirming its own imagery, in part because the imagery is mostly not the sort that is predicated on perfect light glinting off monuments. The Empire State Building and the figure of Prometheus above the Rockefeller Center skating rink endure in tourist-brochure shorthand, but they don't actually remind you of anything but themselves. New York is all pileup and fluke and babble; its imagery is ad hoc."
Lucy Sante, New York Magazine
Lucy Sante, New York Magazine
Monday, November 28, 2022
New York's Feelings
"New York is a person. You might argue that cities are cities that therefore can't also be people any more than people can also be cities, and you may be right that other cities aren't people, but I think you're wrong about New York. I have lived in other cities; I have lived in Los Angeles, and Chicago, and Dallas, and they are all cities that are nice cities but cities that are not people. You may dispute this belief, but today I worried I'd hurt New York's feelings, and New York let me know we were okay, same as any close friend I'd had since I was a kid might have done."
Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?
Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?
Friday, November 25, 2022
Tourist Destination
"New York is in fact a major tourist destination, drawing millions of visitors each year, the majority of whom are never robbed and stabbed and left on the sidewalk to bleed to death while being stepped over by enough people to populate the entire state of Montana. Their secret? They follow certain common-sense New York City safety rules, such as: Always walk at least 30 miles per hour. Always keep your money and other valuables in a safe place, such as Switzerland."
Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Fun Time
Upper West Side |
"Staying in New York City over Thanksgiving is a little like being a survivor of the zombie apocalypse: The city empties out, an eerie calm descends and only the most dedicated venture into the night. In other words, it's a really fun time to be here! (Seriously.)"
Tasting Table staff, Tasting Table
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
On the Move
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
New York Launch
"New York is like that, it takes delicious delight in launching young things out into the stratosphere only to shoot them back out of the sky. That’s its sport."
Ashley Bickerton, Los Angeles Magazine
Ashley Bickerton, Los Angeles Magazine
Monday, November 21, 2022
New York Rhythm
"New York is a better fit. There's a rhythm to the city that revs me up. I like the bustle and the sounds. The smells could be improved, but all in all, I'm glad I moved."
Jo Leigh, Tempted in the City
Jo Leigh, Tempted in the City
Friday, November 18, 2022
In the Traffic of Art
Sidewalk in Rose Hill |
"What’s great about New York is that you’re in the traffic so to speak, of theater, art, music, politics and so much more that really isn’t available elsewhere. New York is also a very spontaneous place. You don’t have to plan something because you can simply go to the theater or a restaurant, or do almost anything else. I think anybody who’s bored in New York isn’t trying."
Marlo Thomas, New York Lifestyles Magazine
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Lonely People
"New York is a city of many lonely people. It's easier to fit in there if you're lonely than in other places."
Billy Whitener, Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
Billy Whitener, Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
City of Man
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Biggest Personality
Monday, November 14, 2022
Love Story
"Window to the Heart" in Times Square |
"It’s no surprise that New York is such a popular a setting for romantic comedies — a genre that is, more often than not, about the newness of love. Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy meets boy, girl meets girl . . . New York, with its endless crowded sidewalks, is practically designed for these happy collisions. Every morning you step out your front door into what is potentially Act One of a love story."
Carter Bays, The Financial Times
Friday, November 11, 2022
Bemoaning the Disappearance of New York
"Bemoaning the disappearance of the New York is a time-honored tradition: no one has ever arrived here early enough to experience the city at its greatest, and everyone who comes after you has arrived too late."
Glynnis MacNicol, The Daily Beast
Glynnis MacNicol, The Daily Beast
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Despair of Love
"To know New York is to know the agonizing despair that is loving it. Desperately, begrudgingly, faithfully. Few cities in the world instill such conflicted passion."
Jenny Bahn, Cereal City Guide: New York
Jenny Bahn, Cereal City Guide: New York
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Living in New York
"People don't really know what New York is unless you live there. I think a lot of people want New York to be a certain way, and they want New York to to be a way that fulfills whatever the image is in their head, and they get that image, probably from TV, from film, and from whatever else, or other sorts of media where they see the city. I think for me, it was just a place that I was growing up. Obviously, the thing that drives New York really is this kind of energy, I think that everyone always talks about, right. But that is kind of hard to understand."
Matthew Daddario, Flaunt
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Like What You See in Movies
"It is hard to say why I love New York because everything is like what you see in movies or on TV, so feels almost unreal. But I was there a couple of years ago walking to the Met from midtown – which is a very long walk – and it was as though I was being carried on a tide of difference: everybody and everything seemed new and fresh."
Chantal Joffe, The Guardian
Chantal Joffe, The Guardian
Monday, November 7, 2022
What Happens on Coney Island
Friday, November 4, 2022
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Night Place
"New York is a night place. New York is a haven for those supposedly lost souls who cannot put up after dusk with solitary silence, who find cricket noises unsettling, and who want to buy a newspaper or enjoy a five-course dinner or even conduct a leisurely chat with a perfect stranger."
Bobby Short, New York Magazine
Bobby Short, New York Magazine
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
New York Landing
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Monument to the $
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