Wealth in New York

Wall Street (Pixabay)

"This was New York. It ran on money. Wealth was to be admired, not sneered at."
Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

Financial Edge

"New York is like that. Everyone here except the Wall Street, one-percenter crowd is living on a financial edge where close to nothing is left over."
Holly Peterson, The Idea of Him

Money and Power

"Everything in New York City is about connections. It’s who you know and how much money you have. It’s really sad. And I am not saying I’m like that. But that’s what New York is: money and power."
PC Peterson, New York Magazine

Ebbing Away

"The Manhattan harbor no longer meant much, either. The channel was not deep enough for the world's largest ships, and the skyline couldn't compare with Shanghai or Singapore. The new World Trade Center was respectable enough, yet was just another symbol, really, for it was a historical certainty that the money would ebb away from New York as it had drained from Paris and Brussels the century before. That is, if another massive hurricane didn't doom it first."
Colin Harrison, You Belong to Me

Expense Account or Welfare

"Manhattan: The ultimate celebration of civilization's final finest hours, a place where you live on an expense account or on welfare; if you're somewhere in between, you move to Queens or Nassau."
Herb Caen, SF Gate

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Wall Street (Pixabay)

"Keeping up with the Joneses became a real stress because nothing is normal on Wall Street, you know. There's never enough cash in New York."
Henry Hamilton, Us: Americans Talk About Love

Reason for Being

Financial District

"I had spent much of my childhood in this part of Manhattan (my father ran a moderately sized investment house) and from an early age I'd been struck by the fantastic activity that surrounded the getting and keeping of money. This activity could be alternatively seductive and repellant, but by 1896 it was unarguably New York's strongest reason for being" 
Caleb Carr, The Alienist

Market Town

Grand Central Market

"New York is first and foremost a market town. Its primary business is selling. Its chief topic of conversation in money." 

Russell Baker, Writers and Age

Keeping Up with the Rothschilds

Vanderbilt Avenue

"The trouble with New York is, we're not keeping up with the Joneses; we're keeping up with the Rothschilds."
"Tom," quoted in New York Magazine

Life Blood

"New York City's life blood runs green, the color of money."
James Roman, Chronicles of Old New York

Out of the Game

East 23rd

"New York's a tough town without the coin, isn't it? You never get a glance when you're out of the game."
Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City

New York Money

The Rockefeller University

"Money talks, and in Manhattan, it screams."
Elizabeth Meyer, Good Mourning

Twenty-One

21 Club

"Living in New York was also starting to lose its luster. No one tells you this, but the city is only a fun place to live if you are twenty-one or have twenty-one million dollars."
Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special

Rockefeller

Rockefeller Center

"If you're a Rockefeller, New York is really your town."
Andy Warhol, quoted in The Manhattan Project

Playground

Chelsea Piers

"You'll love living in New York.  It's a pain in the ass if you don't have any money, but if you have some dough, it's the biggest and best playground in the world."
Douglas Brunt, Ghosts of Manhattan

Never Enough

Goldman Sachs headquarters

"No matter how many hours you work in this town or how much money you make, it's never enough."
Wendy Healy (Brooke Shields), Lipstick Jungle

Money and Prospects

The Pierre and the Sherry-Netherland

"New York is for people with money and prospects."
Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules

Things I Can't Afford

Bergdorf Goodman

"The trouble with New York is that it's so convenient to everything I can't afford."
Jack Barry, quoted in The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said