New York Influence

"I would not be doing what I'm doing today if I hadn't come t New York. I was given my direction from new york. I was fed in new york. I was beaten down by new york an I was picked up by new york. I was made t keep going on by new york."
Bob Dylan, quoted in Bob Dylan: New York

Magnet

"I told him that I was in New York City, the capital of the world. He said, 'That's a good joke.' But it wasn't a joke. New York City was the magnet—the force that draws objects to it, but take away the magnet and everything will fall apart."
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume 1

Intricate Web

34th Street subway station

"At last I was here, in New York City, a city like a web too intricate to understand and I wasn't going to try."
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume 1

Old Town

Morningside Heights

"Old New York City is a friendly old town
From Washington Heights to Harlem on down
There’s a-mighty many people all millin’ all around
They’ll kick you when you’re up and knock you when you’re down
It’s hard times in the city
Livin’ down in New York Town."
Bob Dylan, Hard Times in New York Town

The Bottom of New York

Hudson Yards

"I dug it all — the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York."
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan: A Biography

Riches of the Mind

Rose Main Reading Room

"New York was a dream. It was a dream of cosmopolitan riches of the mind."
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan In His Own Words

Nobody Notices You

East 67th

"New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice."
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One