September 11

Liberty Park

"I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will."
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

Single Women

Morningside Drive

"It would be practically impossible to write an accurate novel about the quality of life for single women in New York without writing a B novel, for the simple reason that life for single women in New York is a B novel."
Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble

Anything is Delivered

Ninth Avenue

"One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me."
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

Rent and Hot Dogs

Gray's Papaya

"Rent stabilization was an indelible part of New York life, like Gray's Papaya."
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

Great Expectations

New York Times building and Midtown

"I'd spent all those years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live; a place where if you really wanted something you might be able to get it; a place where I'd be surrounded by people I was dying to know; a place where I might be able to become the only thing worth being, a journalist.
And I'd turned out to be right."
Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing

A Little Dance

Midtown Manhattan

"Even the vegetables in New York are better. It’s not just the vegetables, of course. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance."
Nora Ephron, Heartburn