Black and White

Rose Hill

"New York is very black and white. I like that. At least if you’re unhappy here you know it and if you’re happy you know it."
Cher, Interview Magazine

Surprising New York

Flower District

"New York is very user-friendly if you don’t want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it’s so compressed—if you walk around, you just find things."
Susan Sarandon, Interview Magazine

New Yorker by Nature

125th Street subway station

"I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life. As for New York: I love public transportation, I love street performers, I love the melting-pot aspect of the city."
Kristen Bell, Interview Magazine

Center of a Lot of Things

Bethesda Terrace and Fountain

"New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London is, for the moment. New York’s the center of something; I don’t know what, really—the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it’s still a great place to live. I can’t see myself living anywhere else."
Robert De Niro, Interview Magazine

Looking Toward the Future

Four Freedoms Park

"New York is a place where it doesn’t matter where you come from, it’s all about people who may not have a past but look toward the future."
Stefano Tonchi, Interview Magazine

Always Enticing

"New York is always enticing—so many neighborhoods, so many markets, and so much cool stuff in New York. I’m always looking around."
John DeLucie, Interview Magazine

Squatters

"It's impossible to own New York. Which I guess makes it a sort of commune of paying squatters."
Christopher Bollen, Interview Magazine

Everybody is an Outsider

SoHo

"New York is a place where everybody's an outsider, basically. I don't think I'm disregarding the vast swath of people who were born and raised in New York; even they would probably walk around SoHo today and feel like they don't fit in here."

Garth Risk Hallberg, Interview Magazine