Made for Grander Things

Grand Central Terminal

"New York is my destination.
New York is where I will be from.
New York is made for grander things.
Just. Like. Me."
Suzanne Vega, New York is My Destination

Patience and Grit

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"Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers always seem to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit--a sort of perpetual muddling through."

E.B. White, Here is New York

Returning to New York

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"Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again."
Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

Leaving New York

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"I don't know very many people who live in New York, who don't also say, 'But I'm leaving.' I've been thinking of leaving for ... thirty-five years now. I'm almost ready."
Paul Auster, Collected Screenplays

Leaving in Droves

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"New York is so dangerous that people are leaving. Rents haven't gone down, 'cause foreign investors are buying up a lot of the buildings, but people are leaving New York in droves. Of course."
Tucker Carlson, Fox News

New York Grandeur

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"Even a Philadelphian like me is willing to admit that New York is the greatest city world. It's vibrant. Alive. Timeless. The more I get to know it, the more I'm captivated by its grandeur."
Rob DiCristino, quoted in Filmed in Brooklyn

New York System

Grand Central Terminal

"New Yorkers don’t really care, in the best way, if you’re in the city. The thing I love so much about this place: You are here, and you join the machine, and you figure out how to work within the system. New York is its own system, and you come and go, and it doesn’t really notice, and that’s OK."
Amy Poehler, Page Six

Grand Central

Grand Central Terminal

"The city orbits around eight million
centers of the universe

and turns around the golden clock
at the still point of this place.

Lift up your eyes from the moving hive
and you will see time circling

under a vault of stars and know
just when and where you are."

Billy Collins, Grand Central