Invitation

"If the Man wants to shove us out
We gonna jump and shout
The Statue of Liberty said, 'Come!'
New York City...New York City...New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?"
John Lennon, New York City

My Speed

"Sky" mosaic by Yoko Ono

"New York is at my speed. It is a 24-hours-a-day city, it's going on around you all the time, so much that you almost stop noticing it. But it's all there if you want it."
John Lennon, The Beatles: Off The Record 2

Naturally Aggressive

"I like New Yorkers because they have no time for the niceties of life. They're like me in this. They're naturally aggressive, they don't believe in wasting time."
John Lennon, The Beatles: Off The Record 2

Fastest City

The Dakota

"I love New York. It's the hottest city going! I haven't been everywhere, but it's the fastest city on earth."

John Lennon, Lennon in America

Creative Atmosphere

Strawberry Fields

"New York is a fantastic place; there's an unbelievably creative atmosphere on this little island of Manhattan."
John Lennon, John Lennon: One Day at a Time

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

Rome

Governors Island

"If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself."
John Lennon, John Lennon in His Own Words

People are Dreaming Again

Strawberry Fields

"New York is beginning to look like Paris when I was younger, when I was twenty-four and people were holding hands and kissing under bridges. It's happening again. People are dreaming again."
John Lennon, All We Are Saying