New York is a Village

Greenwich Village

"It just underlines my theory that New York is a village,' he says. 'Sooner or later, you meet everyone.'"
Gemma Burgess, Brooklyn Girls

We Ain't Playin'

Court in Downtown Manhattan

"We're hunters, we take pride in airin' our prey out
Leavin 'em laid out, dead, in just a sport
Cause we ain't playin' up here in New York."

DJ Khaled, New York

Values of a Time

Greenwich Village

"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

Greenwich Village

"Growing up, I only wanted New York. To be precise: I wanted Greenwich Village. I wanted the subway. I wanted struggle. I wanted culture. I wanted action."
Alyssa Shelasky, Apron Anxiety

Where I Should Have Been Born

Washington Square North

"I should have been born in New York, I should have been born in the Village, that's where I belong."
John Lennon, Lennon Remembers

Soap Opera

Washington Square Park

"That's all the Village is, honey, just one crazy little soap opera after another."
Ann Bannon, I Am a Woman