Exciting City

Tom's Restaurant

"New York is such an exciting city that even being on a model of it 3,000 miles away is exciting. I work with all ex-New Yorkers. That's how we survive. We have a little New York aquarium that we live in."
Jerry Seinfeld, New York Magazine

New York Cab Ride

"The average New York cab ride is still one of the most exciting experiences in the city. These guys take chances with your life for 5 bucks that you wouldn't take for 5 million."
Jerry Seinfeld, Is This Anything?

Inspiring Human Energy

"Real, live, inspiring human energy exists when we coagulate together in crazy places like New York City. Feeling sorry for yourself because you can’t go to the theater for a while is not the essential element of character that made New York the brilliant diamond of activity it will one day be again."

Jerry Seinfeld, The New York Times

True Greatness

"Greatness is rare. And the true greatness that is New York City is beyond rare.  It’s unknown. Unknown anyplace outside of New York City."

Jerry Seinfeld, The New York Times

Scary Ride

"I take the subway down to Coney Island to go on the Cyclone. Here I am, I’m sitting on the D train for an hour and fifteen minutes, so I can go on a scary ride. How dumb is that? You know that first sharp drop on the Cyclone? I fell asleep. It was the least exciting part of my day."
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinlanguage

Parking Space in New York

"People will kill each other for a parking space in New York because they think, ‘If I don’t get this one, I may never get a space. I’ll be searching for months until somebody goes out to the Hamptons.’"
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinlanguage

New York Humor

"Humor is really a New York invention, as far as I´m concerned. All humor emanates from New York. All people in New York are funny and get funnier as they get older, and everyone outside New York gets less funny."
Jerry Seinfeld, The New York Times

Zoo York

"I like to go downtown, to the West Village — it’s kind of a zoo. And I like to go to the zoo."
Jerry Seinfeld, New York Magazine

Vanishing New York

East 14th

"A large part of my life is walking up and down Broadway and Columbus Avenue and trying to remember what store used to be where. Look at that place over there. That's a Madison Avenue boutique. What is it doing over here? I'll be interested to see how long that lasts. The people over here, they have the money, but they’re not going to spend it. They’re too cheap."
Jerry Seinfeld, The New York Times

Pie Fight

Tom's Restaurant

"Walking down the streets of New York is like being in a pie fight."
Jerry Seinfeld, quoted in New York magazine

Musical Chairs

East 60th

"Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. It's like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964."
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinlanguage

Wretched Refuse

The Immigrants statue in Battery Park

"One thing I love about living in New York is it's every different type of person piled one on top of the other. I am for open immigration, but that sign we have in the front of the Statue of Liberty, 'Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' Can't we just say, 'Hey, the door's open. We'll take whoever you got.' Do we have to specify 'The wretched refuse?'"
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinlanguage