Tapioca-Tasting Poop

Alwyn Court

"Oh, here we go: 'New York is the greatest city in the whole wide world. It's where dreams come true and pigeon poop tastes like tapioca.'"
Stella Zinman (Sarah Chalke), How I Met Your Mother

New York Apartment

Third Avenue

"Something happened to Lily and Marshall that day, something that happens to all New Yorkers who return home from anywhere other than New York: their big lovely apartment shrank."
Ted Mosby (Bob Saget), How I Met Your Mother

A Real New Yorker

"You're not a real New Yorker until you've stolen a cab from someone who needs it more than you do."
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother

Of Cockroaches and New Yorkers

"You're not a real New Yorker until you've killed a cockroach with your bare hands."
Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), How I Met Your Mother

The Right to Call Yourself a New Yorker

The Brooklyn Bridge

"This is the greatest city in the world and you've to earn the right to call yourself a New Yorker."
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother

New York in the Winter

Bow Bridge

"There's nothing more wonderful than New York City in the winter -- except the view of New York City through your apartment window."
Ted Mosby (Bob Saget), How I Met Your Mother

How a New Yorker Acts

West Chelsea

"Act like a New Yorker: a pushy obnoxious knock-the-other-guy-down-and-take-his-hot-dog resident of the greatest city on Earth."
Barney Stimpson (Neil Patrick Harris), How I Met Your Mother

Neighbor Etiquette

Apartment building on the Lower East Side

"This is New York City. You don't get close to the neighbors. You nod at them politely in the hall. You call the cops if you haven't seem them in a while and you smell something funny, and that's it."
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother

Little New York

Subway seats

"I'm too big for New York, okay? I'm always trying to fit into cramped little subway seats, or duck under doorways that were built a hundred and fifty years ago. Hey, guess what, people are bigger now! Build bigger doorways! What the hell is the matter with you?"
Marshall Erikson (Jason Segel), How I Met Your Mother

Living Organism

Flower District

"New York: it's a living organism, an ever-changing tapestry."
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother

Subway Crying

Number 7 subway train

"You're not a real New Yorker until you've cried on the subway and not given a damn about what anybody thinks."
Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), How I Met Your Mother

Gentrification

East Houston

"When I first moved to New York, it was dingy, disgusting, dirty, ugly, flea-ridden, stinky and altogether terrifying -- but then, sadly, the whole city started to go uphill."
Ted Mosby (Bob Saget), How I Met Your Mother

Too Big for Love

South Street Seaport

"Maybe New York's just too big a town. There's millions of people in this city. How in all this mess is a guy supposed to find the love of his life? I mean, where do you even begin?"
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother

Thanksgiving in New York

Pumpkins for sale in Chelsea

"Thanksgiving in New York is a wonderful time. It's a time for giving of yourself, for thinking of your fellow man. A time when the unforgiving city becomes a little kinder."
Ted Mosby (Bob Saget), How I Met Your Mother

The Greatest Party in the World

East 25th Street

"Let's hit the greatest party in the world -- the streets of New York!"
Jerry (John Lithgow), How I Met Your Mother

The City That Never Lets You Sleep

Lexington Avenue

"It's so loud. All the time. Yes, it's the city that never sleeps. Well, guess what? I like to sleep! I've been tired for eight years!"
Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), How I Met Your Mother