Snob

Battery Park

"Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it snob . . . whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world."

Russell Lynes, New York: The Big Apple Quote Book

Shock

Pixabay

"You learn what the city is when you come back after a vacation. It's a shock. You have to tighten your reflexes, tighten your act. You have to regalvanize yourself into the city's tempo. You've got to rally."
Bradley Cunningham, New York: The Big Apple Quote Book

Summer in New York

"In the summer in New York, the streets turn into rivers of molten tar, like a Venice from hell, with crazed cabdrivers careening like possessed gondoliers."
David McGlynn, New York: The Big Apple Quote Book

Self-Importance

Museum of the City of New York

"The most permanent feature of New York is undoubtedly its air of self-importance, the locally prized conviction that, when you're here, you're in the place to be."
Guy Trebay, New York: The Big Apple Quote Book