"New York is such a romantic place in the sense that anything can happen at any moment. But there’s also a specialness about New York. New York is like: 'Bitch, I don’t need you. If you don’t like it here, you can leave. I’ll be fine. There’s another busload of people coming in.'"
Phoebe Robinson, The Washington Post
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Busload of People
Monday, February 27, 2023
City of Dazzling Wealth
"In the shadow of those grey and white pinnacles had grown up a modern Baghdad where the ends of the earth came together. A greater Italian city than Rome, a greater Irish city than Dublin, a greater German city than Cologne; a city of dazzling wealth whose towers had once looked like peaks of solid gold to hungry eyes reaching beyond the horizons of the old world; a place that had sprung up from a lonely frontier to a metropolis, a central city, bowing to no other. A place where civilisation and savagery had climbed alternately on each other's shoulders, and reached their crest together."
Leslie Charteris, The Saint of New York
Leslie Charteris, The Saint of New York
Friday, February 24, 2023
Most Beautiful Thing
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Constant Regeneration
"I love New York! I love the energy of this city, the way it constantly regenerates. To always be alive, to know how to be optimistic. To understand novelty."
Sylvia Jorif, Condé Nast
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Possibility City
"My own favorite thing about New York: It is possibility city. Nowhere else do you have as much of a sense when you get up in the morning that your life could be completely different by evening, merely according to whether you turn right or left when you get to a particular street corner."
Jay Molivesher, New York Magazine
Jay Molivesher, New York Magazine
Monday, February 20, 2023
Values of a Time
"New York, and in particular Brooklyn, is undoubtedly where the creativity of the inhabitants suggests new ways of speaking, dressing, and behaving. After a few years, these ways of presenting, discovered in New York, are assimilated around the world and used as fashions, unfortunately also with a certain superficiality. New York is the place that best captures the values of a time."
Gaetano Pesce, L'Officiel USA
Gaetano Pesce, L'Officiel USA
Friday, February 17, 2023
Where People Come to Make It
Thursday, February 16, 2023
A Slum
"Unless you're rich, New York is like a slum. It's like India."
Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer, Mr. Nice Guy
Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer, Mr. Nice Guy
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Forced to Interact
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"New Yorkers nurture so many industries — finance, trade, and tech — and have so many influences, and come from so many cultural backgrounds. And because we’re forced to be together and interact physically in our daily lives, my life feels more vital. We take the subway with lawyers, homeless people punching each other, nurses falling asleep on their way home, teachers scolding their students, and many other people from every walk of life."
Ethan Hawke, Variety
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
My Valentine
"Moscow is Red, Pittsburgh is gritty.
I know a nicer kind of city.
It's on the Hudson, not the Rhine.
Manhattan, be my valentine."
Phyllis McGinley, Valentine for New York
I know a nicer kind of city.
It's on the Hudson, not the Rhine.
Manhattan, be my valentine."
Phyllis McGinley, Valentine for New York
Monday, February 13, 2023
Interest in New York City
Friday, February 10, 2023
Battery
"New York is a battery, it gives you energy from I don't-know-where. To me, it's magical."
Luis Guillermo MartÃnez, La Cuarta
Luis Guillermo MartÃnez, La Cuarta
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Don't Blame New York
"Don’t blame New York for your dreams that died
Don’t blame New York when you’re too tired to try
Don’t blame New York for how much you eat
Don’t blame New York when you cry in the street
Don’t blame New York for the places you grieve
Don’t blame New York if you need to leave."
Jim Andralis, Don't Blame New York
Don’t blame New York when you’re too tired to try
Don’t blame New York for how much you eat
Don’t blame New York when you cry in the street
Don’t blame New York for the places you grieve
Don’t blame New York if you need to leave."
Jim Andralis, Don't Blame New York
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
No Prejudice
"New York is a melting pot. In my neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, the kids were black, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Greek and Jewish, and there was no prejudice. They all beat me up on the way to school."
Richard Belzer, quoted in The New York Times
Richard Belzer, quoted in The New York Times
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Leaving New York City
"Who doesn’t think about leaving New York City at least once a day? It’s like the house in Poltergeist: the house wants you to leave, but you keep fighting it. Living in New York is great, but it's awful too."
Jason Diamond, Never Can Say Goodbye
Jason Diamond, Never Can Say Goodbye
Monday, February 6, 2023
American Dream
Friday, February 3, 2023
Map of New York
"Everyone had a fragile web of friends on the map of New York – friendships that had nothing to do with geography, neighborhood. Everyone in his way excluded the masses, the unknown, the potential enemy."
Patricia Highsmith, A Dog's Ransom
Patricia Highsmith, A Dog's Ransom
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Not for the Pure of Soul
"New York is not for the pure of soul, the sweet of spirit, the model of sanity or the paragon of civility. It is the city that gave part of its name to the Bronx cheer and cherishes its Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of the art of bilking the innocent."
Russell Baker, The New York Times
Russell Baker, The New York Times
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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