The New York Game

"The real purpose of the evening for most of the attendees was to play the New York game: to show off what they had and compare it to others who had as much or more."
Olivia Goldsmith, The First Wives Club

Money

One Central Park

"This New York was so different from the city in which he'd grown up. Manhattan was all about money now, all about trying to make enough of it just to survive."
Adam Langer, The Thieves of Manhattan

New York Money

Fifth Avenue

"I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it."
Anthony Trollope, North America

For the Rich

Downtown Manhattan Heliport

"New York is a city for the rich by the rich."

Choire Sicha, New York Stories

Ruined by Money

The James Hotel

"She looked out the window at all the rich Euros and trust fund kinds who had taken over SoHo and the Lower East Side, and she didn't feel as furious as she usually did about how money had ruined the city. She felt romantic. New York was big enough for all of them. The skyline would survive."
Amy Sohn, Prospect Park West