Biggest Personality

Lower East Side

"I love New York City. No matter how long I have lived or worked here, she's just the biggest personality  I've ever met, so there's always an unexpected joy, or moment, a surprise. There's nothing like NYC."
Stephanie J. Block, NYC Next

Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be

Met Museum

"New York City. How can you not love her? It's the city of dreams. From the subway system that takes you anywhere you need to go, to the incredible museums at our fingertips. It's the city that never sleeps. Why would you want to be anywhere else?"
Ondine Jean-Baptiste, NYC Next

Become Anything and Anyone

Times Square subway station

"New York City is the only city in the world where you can come from anything and be anyone and become anything and become anyone. One of the things I'm most proud of in my entire life is that I became a New Yorker."
Annaleigh Ashford, NYC Next

Community of Souls

Williamsburg

"I love New York City because of the community. I love that we live underneath, on top of, and all around one another, and we take care of each other. I love that I can hear someone practicing an aria down the hall or that I can wave hello to the woman who owns the bodega on the corner. It's a community of souls who look out for one another and love one another."
Jenn Colella, NYC Next 

Everyone Fits in Somewhere

"I love New York because it has everything. Just walking down the street in New York is an education. For me, there is something magical about just wondering aimlessly through the city, which I tend to do probably more than I should. And because New York has everything, it doesn't have to pretend to be anything, so everyone fits in somewhere. Even Rudy Giuliami seems less weird in New York. You know, I think right now if New York could talk to us, it would probably say: 'Hey, don't worry about me. I'm gonna be fine. I'm the greatest city in the world.'"
Jerry Zucker, NYC next 

Imagine New York City

"Imagine a place where you were free to be whoever you wanted to be. Imagine a place where you could bring your biggest, boldest dreams and pursue them. Imagine a place where everybody is different, yet everobody is connected by the energy and the love for this place. This place is New York City."

Mazine Lineham, NYC Next

Proud to Be a New Yorker

"The more I travel, the more I want to come home to New York City. So I'm really proud to be a New Yorker and I look forward to the next New York and building the future of this city together. No matter the highs or the lows. the city always bounces back, 'cause  underneath that strength, this city has a big heart and it's beating strong."
Peter Cincotti, NYC Next

The People's City

"Why do I love New York City? More than any place else, New York represents a new start, a new beginning, a new life for the millions of immigrants who believed and continue to believe in this great and precarious experiment called democracy. And nowhere else is the fabric of democracy more intricate and colorfully woven than New York City, with ethnicities and origins of literally every language and color, every culture, every cuisine. Why do I love New York, New York? Because it's the people's city."
Stephen Lang, NYC Next

Full of Inspiration

"New York City is the best city in the word; there's no two ways about it. I mean, being born and raised here, I feel like you get an education that's unlike any other in the world. Not only from the schools, from the people, just by walking the streets. Every block is full of inspiration: the theater, the arts, the clubs, the music, the melting pot that the city is has taught me so much. I don't know who I would be without New York."
Peter Cincotti, NYC Next

New York City Rocks

"I love New York City more than anywhere else in the world because whenever you're somewhere and it's not New York City, you're like 'OK, this sucks,' but then when you get back to New York City, you're like, 'OK. This rocks.' Does that make any sense?"
Catherine Cohen, NYC Next

Greatest City on Earth

 

 

"There's nothing that competes with the fact that New York is the greatest city on the face of the Earth. I've been in New York at its best and I've been in New York at its worst. And nothing, nothing will ever take me away from this incredible city. It's the best"
Harry Belafonte, NYC Next

Two Sides of a Coin

 

 

"I love New York because she's everything I've ever known and yet still somehow remains a mystery. She's two sides of a coin. She'll raise you up and then she'll also chew you up and spit you out. She's honest, she's real, she's tough but loving. She's regal and yet scrappy. Think about that: the greatest city in the world and yet somehow still an underdog."
Sebastian Arcelus, NYC Next

More Thrilling Version of Yourself

"I love New Yorkers. I love their sass, their intelligence, their thrill for life. I love the city's beauty, I love the city's noise, I love the city's architecture. I love New York City's theaters, museums, and music and nightclubs. I love New York City's quiet streets and bustling streets. I love the way that this city changes you every day you live here and makes you a more thrilling and opened version of yourself."

Raúl Esparza, NYC Next