New Year's

"New Yorkers have long responded to New Year's as if a cinematic plague is about to descend and it's time to a) leave or b) stock up on batteries/water/the-complete-first-season-of-everything."
Sloane Crosley, The New York Times

Night and Day

"All cities are superb at night because their hideous corners are devoured in dark­ness. But Manhattan can sur­vive the daylight test. By day, it has the bizarre beauty of something that could not be imagined if the energy of a working community had not created it out of necessity."
Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

Friendliest

Brooklyn Bridge Park

"New York is the friendliest place. Not everybody knows that."
Diane Lane, The New York Times

Lousy

"Everybody agrees New York is lousy, yet everybody wants to come here."
Jimmy Breslin, The New York Times