Rich New Yorker

JP Morgan's study

"I'm going to be a New Yorker and a rich one, which is the only kind to be."
Maxime Gerard (Kyle Allen), A Haunting in Venice

Bethesda Fountain

"There's a spot in Central Park, the Bethesda Fountain, where if you sit there long enough, the entire city walks by."
Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry), Fools Rush In

Easter Parade

Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival

"On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
And of the guy I'm taking to the Easter Parade"
Judy Garland (lyrics by Irving Berlin), Easter Parade 

Palaces Without Noblemen

Morningside Heights

"People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. Last night, after I left you, I was walking along and - and lookin' at the tall buildings, and I got to thinking about what Thoreau said. 'They created a lot of grand palaces here, but they forgot to create the noblemen to put in them.'"
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Labels and Love

Fifth Avenue

"Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York in search of the two Ls: Labels and Love. "
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Sex and the City: The Movie

Movie Star

Morningside Heights

"In New York, you are always the star in your own movie."
Simon Barnes, The Meaning of Sport

The Devil's Home

Harlem

"Leave Harlem? I am Harlem. This is where I belong. This is where hell is. I'm going to stay here and meet the devil."
A.R. Skuggs (Clarence Williams III), Sugar Hill

Kansas

Central Park

"New York is just like Kansas... intensified."
Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox), The Secret of My Success

New York LIving

Upper West Side

"An overpriced apartment and Chinese takeout: that's New York living."

Fisher (Hector Elizondo), Runaway Bride

New York Dating

Canal Street

"For all the excitement and glamour, life in the big city does have its downside. I mean, if you thought Wall Street was full of bullshitters, try having a relationship here."
Tommy (Scott Porter), The Good Guy

A Walk in the Park

Riverside Park

"This is New York City, baby. A simple walk in the park can get you killed."
Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes), The Art of War

God-Given Right

Hook & Ladder 8

"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right."
The Mayor (David Margulies), Ghostbusters 2

New York on New Year's Eve

"Nothing beats New York on New Year's Eve."
Stan Harris (Robert DeNiro), New Year's Eve

Land of Opportunity

Rockefeller Center

"Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity."
Harry (Joe Pesci), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

First Base

Riverside Park

"50K does not get you to first base in the Big Apple."
Budd Fox (Charlie Sheen), Wall Street

Treasure Isle

"Step right up to Treasure Isle
Ev'ry inch of it, a sky-high mile
Fairytale land
Only in New York."
Dick Scanlan (lyrics), Thoroughly Modern Millie

New York Was His Town

"Chapter One. 'He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.'  Oh, I love this. 'New York was his town, and it always would be.'"
Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), Manhattan

Everyone is an Immigrant

Roosevelt Avenue

"It's one of the things I love best about New York: everyone came from somewhere else."
Isabelle (Julie Christie), New York, I Love You

Missing New York

Statue of Liberty

"I'm dying to feel that I'm living once more
I gotta get back to New York.
There's only one statue,
I know you'll agree.
The dame with the torch looking over the sea.
The smell of the Bronx is perfume to me.
I gotta get back to New York."
Lorenz Hart (lyrics), Hallelujah I'm a Bum

Where Dreams Come True

"The place: New York City. The time: Now, 1962. And there's no time or place like it. If you've got a dream, this is the place to make that dream come true. That's why the soaring population of hopeful dreamers has just reached eight million people. Oh! Make that eight million and one."
Narrator, Down with Love